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mule
1[ myool ]
noun
- 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 ( def ).
- any hybrid between the donkey and the horse.
- Informal. a very stubborn person.
- Botany. any sterile hybrid.
- Biology. a hybrid, especially one between the canary and some other finch.
- Slang. a person paid to carry or transport contraband, especially drugs, for a smuggler.
- 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.
- Also called spinning mule. a machine for spinning cotton or other fibers into yarn and winding the yarn on spindles.
- Nautical. a large triangular staysail set between two masts and having its clew set well aft.
- Numismatics. a hybrid coin having the obverse of one issue and the reverse of the succeeding issue, or vice versa.
mule
2[ myool ]
noun
- a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
- a woman's shoe resembling this.
mule
1/ 尘箩耻藧濒 /
noun
- the sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, used as a beast of burden Compare hinny 1
- any hybrid animal
a mule canary
- Also calledspinning mule a machine invented by Samuel Crompton that spins cotton into yarn and winds the yarn on spindles
- informal.an obstinate or stubborn person
- slang.a person who is paid to transport illegal drugs for a dealer
mule
2/ 尘箩耻藧濒 /
noun
- a backless shoe or slipper
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of mule1
Origin of mule2
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of mule1
Origin of mule2
Idioms and Phrases
- forty acres and a mule, a broken or unfulfilled promise, especially one with unjust, long-term consequences: an allusion to the parcels of farmland that formerly enslaved African Americans were promised and given after the Civil War and then had taken away from them:
The protesters chanted their demand, 鈥淩eal action, real justice, no forty acres and a mule.鈥
More idioms and phrases containing mule
see stubborn as a mule .Example Sentences
鈥淔orty acres and a mule, this is bigger than the music,鈥 he rapped.
More than any other animal, mule deer cause more injuries to visitors in the park, according to a National Park Service Instagram post.
I reluctantly became her mule, my mother explaining to my 25-year-old self: This is a nice suitcase.
I thought about how Mark would not take his stepfather鈥檚 name, how no one could ever make him do anything he didn鈥檛 want 鈥 a stubborn mule.
Its network of couriers would launder the cash, pushing it through seemingly legitimate businesses like construction firms in the UK and elsewhere, or using mules to fly it in baggage to Dubai.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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