Definitions for mule

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IPA: /myul/

Mule is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in mule (elmu).

Definitions for mule

noun

1. the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness. Compare hinny.
2. any hybrid between the donkey and the horse.
3. Informal. a very stubborn person.
4. Botany. any sterile hybrid.
5. Slang. a person paid to carry or transport contraband, especially drugs, for a smuggler.
6. a small locomotive used for pulling rail cars, as in a coal yard or on an industrial site, or for towing, as of ships through canal locks.
7. Also called spinning mule. a machine for spinning cotton or other fibers into yarn and winding the yarn on spindles.
8. Nautical. a large triangular staysail set between two masts and having its clew set well aft.
9. Numismatics. a hybrid coin having the obverse of one issue and the reverse of the succeeding issue, or vice versa.
10. Biology. a hybrid, especially one between the canary and some other finch.
11. a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
12. a woman's shoe resembling this.

Origin of mule

before 1000; Middle English Old French Latin mūla mule (feminine); replacing Old English mūl Latin mūlus (masculine)

Examples for mule

The popular type and exponent of obstinacy is the mule, a most intelligent animal.

Then Robin checked his mule quickly and leaped from off its back.

That he had observed, from his station in the rear, that she sat her mule as if she were exhausted.

Steadily, our gunman pushed forward, his mule high-stepping through brush.

In some places we want cows but not bison, or mule deer but not coyotes, or cars but not elk.

He took the left one and, with a pile driver of a mule kick, almost ripped it off its hinges.

He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.

Those players called Robinson “mule” because he worked them hard as pack animals.

Duncan had been wont to say of him that Kellogg could talk the hind-leg off of a mule.

They went to the camp we had left, but neither he nor the mule was there.