mule

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An Argentine pack mule.
Mules.

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From Latin mulus (mule)

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Singular
mule

Plural
mules

mule (plural mules)

  1. A generally sterile hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
  2. A generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
  3. (informal) A stubborn person.
  4. (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
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Singular
mule

Plural
mules

mule (plural mules)

  1. A woman's shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel
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  • IPA: /muːlə/, [ˈmuːlə]

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mule c. (singular definite mulen, plural indefinite muler)

  1. muzzle

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mule (imperative mul, infinitive at mule, present tense muler, past tense mulede, past participle har mulet)

  1. pommel, pummel, pound, lick

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mule f.

  1. Plural form of mula.

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mule

  1. vocative singular of mulus