Certain types can also be known as muckers or fishing boots.
In this context, mucker is largely synonymous with grinder.
It has been speculated that, during the course of work, one of the mucker's shovels may have struck the dynamite, detonating it.
Commentators remarked on his ability in the series to switch from being a goal scorer to a mucker and grinder.
Sometimes grinder is used in combination with mucker to describe a player as a "mucker and a grinder", although it is used as emphasis.
They take their name from the word mucker, a colloquialism meaning "good friend".
The mucker, the ladder and even the batteries on the miner's belts are authentic.
Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough.
