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Definition of Mule

Mule

A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

A very stubborn person.

A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

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Mule Quotations

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
Al Sharpton

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
Clifford Geertz

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?'
Terry Prachett

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
Francis Parkman

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
Hank Williams

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
Marcia Gay Harden

I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.
Ida B. Wells

I developed my style by pickin' a lot of cotton, plowin' that ole mule every day. I just got the rhythm, and any rhythm I need I know where it is; I know where to find it.
John Hunter

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Ignatius Donnelly

And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres.
Charles Evers

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Mule Translations

mule in Dutch is muiltje, slof, muil
mule in French is mulet
mule in German is Maultier, Maultier, Maulesel
mule in Italian is mulo
mule in Portuguese is mula
mule in Spanish is mulo, mula

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