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.

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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

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“Muck out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/muck%20out. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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