mucker

noun4

1. •
   A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
2. •
   (slang) A comrade; a friendly, low-ranking soldier in the same situation.

   • Go and talk to your mucker!
3. •
   (UK, slang) Friend, acquaintance.

   • Fancy a pint, me old mucker?
4. •
   (offensive, no longer used) A low or vulgar labourer.

verb1

1. •
   (no longer used) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.

   • In tyme of plentie the riche too vpp mucker Corne, Grayne, or Chafre hopinge vppon dearthe. — 1548

noun1

1. •
   (historical) A follower of the religious teachings of Johann Heinrich Schönherr (1770–1826) and Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861).