Definition Definition

mule - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mule' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mule [ n.]
- 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.