mule 
mule (myo̵̅o̅l)
noun
- the offspring of a donkey and a horse; esp., the offspring of a jackass and a mare: mules are nearly always sterile
- a small tractor or electric engine used to tow boats along a canal or move mine cars
- a machine for drawing and spinning cotton fibers into yarn and winding the yarn on spindles
- a hybrid animal, as the offspring of a canary and some other finch; esp., a sterile hybrid
- Informal a stubborn person
- Slang a person who smuggles drugs or narcotics into a country
Etymology: OFr, fem. of mul < L mulus, mule
mule (myo̵̅o̅l)
noun
a lounging slipper that does not cover the heel
Etymology: Fr, ult. < L mulleus, red or purple shoe < IE base *mel-, dark-colored > Gr melas, black
Converse of subject
- carry: All its supplies would have to be carried by mule, of which nearly two thousand were still needed.
Converse of object
- disguise: Do you know that these animals are not mules cleverly disguised?
- ride: We spent the third day riding the Mules up to the top.
- load: On 19th October Charles T. Stanton arrived back from Sutter's Fort with seven mules loaded with food.
- use: In most instances we use pack mules to carry our equipment.
- call: The new movie will be called The Nine Mules.
- hire: From the landing stage here the hardy tourist can either walk the mile and a half track into the mountains or hire a mule.
Adjective modifier
- spinning: Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, dies at the age of 74.
- old: Picture the 32 year old soldier sat on his 13 year old mule.
- white: Wen Chang ( ' Literary Glory ' ) at the top left-hand corner is wearing official robes and riding on a white mule.
- stubborn: He always has been and I have always been a stubborn, unbelieving old mule!
Modifies a noun
- ewe: Visitors were then given the chance to inspect the mule ewe lambs to be sold at Castle Douglas.
- deer: There is also a wide variety of animal life: mule deer, mountain lions, .
- cart: We made a shelter for His Majesty and the women, by propping up the sailcloth covering of the mule cart on sticks.
- lamb: The trials are being performed on a flock of mule lambs selected for tagging with this variety of tag types.
- track: I had driven out from Madrid along the Valencia road, turning off along a mule track about ten miles from the city.
- trail: Crete has miles of dirt tracks and old mule trails which ma...
Noun used with modifier
It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatismöan unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
What that Sicilian mule was to me, I have been to the Queen.
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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