0 someone who searches the mud (= soft, wet ground) near rivers trying to find valuable or interesting objects:
Poor Victorian children, nicknamed mudlarks, used to dig at low tide in the foul-smelling muck of the Thames to scavenge lumps of coal and other items they could sell for a few pence.
Beachcombing has provided a way of life for generations of mudlarks living close to the tidal foreshores of the Thames and the Medway.
Edmond's trainer was hoping for softer ground for the confirmed mudlark.
