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   mule

   /mjuːl/

   noun

   • 1. the offspring of a donkey and a horse (strictly, a male donkey and a female horse), typically sterile and used as a beast of burden.
   • ▪ an obstinate person.
   • ▪ a courier for illegal drugs. informal
   • 2. a hybrid plant or animal, especially a sterile one.
   • ▪ any of several standard cross-bred varieties of sheep.
   • 3. a kind of spinning machine producing yarn on spindles, invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779.
   • 4. a small tractor or locomotive, typically one that is electrically powered.
   • 5. a coin with the obverse and reverse of designs not originally intended to be used together.

   Word Origin Old Englishmūl, probably of Germanic origin, from Latin mulus, mula; reinforced in Middle English by Old French mule.

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