mud out

English

Verb

mud out (third-person singular simple present muds out, present participle mudding out, simple past and past participle mudded out)

1. To remove dirt or mud from an area.
   • 1908, Records and Briefs in Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Minnesota:

     Q. First drilling and then you mudded out and drilled again? Yes, sir.

   • 1999, Esther Burroughs, Splash the Living Water, →ISBN:

     I worked beside those young people and mudded out a small African-American church and helped to replace dry wall.

   • 2009, Heralding Unheard Voices:

     Thus far, they have mudded out 42 homes and continue their work.

   Before we start renovating, we'll need to mud out the whole building.

2. To become unusable or unreachable due to mud.
   • 1991, Michael Tobias, Sally Peters, Fatal Exposure, →ISBN, page 100:

     What with the floodin' an' road mudded out an' snow too wet to three-wheelie — why, it's a mess.

   • 1998, Government Contracts Reporter:

     In that evaluation if there was a rain day where they were mudded out or if on the case of the erection crew, where there was a day that they were blown out because of strong winds and couldn't erect, I did not use those days.

   • 2004, Pennie Wise, Big Skies & Cowpies: Building A Home And Family In Montana, →ISBN:

     We are waiting once more for logs. They say they're mudded out.