muck out

phrasal verb

mucked out; mucking out; mucks out

informal

: to clean (the place where a farm animal lives) : to remove animal waste and dirty hay, sawdust, etc., from (a place, such as a barn)

We went to the barn to muck out the stalls.

Examples of muck out in a Sentence

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Farther outside of town, people were mucking out homes and putting mattresses and belongings by the road. —

Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024 Brooks Pellegrin, 50, and his family cleared muck out of their camp site, a two-story structure with a large dock on a canal about 14 miles (22 kilometers) from the Gulf of Mexico. —

Jack Brook, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2024 Firehouses were supplied with hay, feed and grain for the horses, whose stalls needed constant mucking out. —

Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023 Neighbors grabbed shovels and came running; Gonzales and his son brought over the tractors that Gonzales usually uses to muck out paddocks. —

Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023