mule
骡子,驴子,骡马,骡骡
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Definitions
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- : 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.
- : 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.
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Examples
I’m a mountain person who, for some reason, enjoys climbing thousands of vertical feet by myself in the dark, so elk and mule deer were the choice for me.
Earlier this year, she got a chance to find out when she joined a bow hunt for mule deer with two rising stars of huntstagram, the social media sphere dedicated to all things hunting.
While relatively small burns intended to regenerate habitat—say, 100 acres to improve mule deer range—are exempt from rigorous analysis, larger projects can take years to be approved, says Van de Water.
That you don’t have to be somebody’s emotional or spiritual mule to be worthy of love.
The company was working on military contracts, and BigDog was supposed to be a sort of pack mule for soldiers.
He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.
He took the left one and, with a pile driver of a mule kick, almost ripped it off its hinges.
Those players called Robinson “Mule” because he worked them hard as pack animals.
In some places we want cows but not bison, or mule deer but not coyotes, or cars but not elk.
Steadily, our gunman pushed forward, his mule high-stepping through brush.
At this moment the tinkling of a mule's bells, mingled with the song of the muleteer, came on the air.
Massed on the plateau above the mule-path, the whole population of the village stood to watch them down the steep descent.
On crossing it for the first time, I perceived lying about me half putrid cats and dogs—and even a mule in the same state.
He drives a white mule, and has managed to put a top of sail cloth on an old ramshackle buggy, which he calls a 'shay.'
I took my own saddle ashore: and being mounted on a fine mule, we all began our journey towards the hill.