mule – English noun declension

English noun forms of mule

Noun: mule
Singularmule
Pluralmules

Sample Sentences

  • One day he ran into a herd of a half dozen elk, so he rode his mule down the canyon three or four miles, leaving the sheep alone. [2017, Robert S. McPherson, Cowboying In Canyon Country, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 200:]
  • It would be exceedingly interesting to know if the hybrid would reproduce, a matter I deem exceedingly doubtful, for the chances are it would prove a "mule" (infertile). [1922, Onnie Warren Smith, The Book of the Pike, page 187:]
  • Vegetable mules supply an irrefragable argument in favour of the sexual system of botany. [1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 149:]
  • The most extraordinary mule, however, that is asserted to have been produced on the Continent, is a cross between the cabbage and horse-radish, which Monsieur Sageret reports that he has obtained […] [1837, William Herbert, Amaryllidaceæ: Preceded by an Attempt to Arrange the Monocotyledonous Orders, and Followed by a Treatise on Cross-bred Vegetables, and Supplement, page 353:]
  • "Where in the hell do you think I learned to be such a mule?” [2005, Dorothea Benton Frank, Isle of Palms, Penguin, →ISBN:]
  • Cocaine packet ingestion (these patients referred to as “mules”) may warrant surgery, Golytely or expectant passage. [2006, “Gastroenterology: Esophageal Foreign Bodies”, in Steven E. Diaz, The Little Black Book of Emergency Medicine (Jones and Bartlett's Little Black Book Series), 2nd edition, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 101:]
  • “Yeah, in Denver, we know about Uriarte's involvement in meth. Our Las Cruces office seized over six hundred pounds of methamphetamine from two of his mules last year.” [2007, Thomas G. Blacklock, Safe Zone: A Novel Approach to the Drug War, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 44:]
  • What is less clear, however, is why mint workers should have chosen to produce mules, if they were making forgeries […] [1988, Andrew Burnett, The Normanby hoard and other Roman coin hoards, British Museum Publications:]
  • He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule, an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose. [2007, David L. McClard, Verotopia Online: The MMORPG of the Century, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 89:]
  • In heavier seas where a boat must sail a course dictated by waves, or where wave action makes power more important than pointing, the mule will prove the faster sail. [1974, Yachting, volume 135, page 60:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Italic *musklos?
4. Latin mūlus
5. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
7. Proto-Italic *-ā
8. Latin -a
9. Latin mūla
10. Anglo-Norman mulebor.
11. ▲
12. Latin mūlusbor.
13. Proto-West Germanic *mūl
14. Old English mūl
15. Middle English mule
16. English mule
17. Inherited from Middle English mule, from Anglo-Norman mule (“she-mule”) and Old English mūl, both ultimately from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós. Compare Late Latin muscellus (“young he-mule”), Old East Slavic мъшкъ (mŭškŭ, “mule”), Ancient Greek (Phocian) μυχλός (mukhlós, “he-ass”), and German Maul Maultier, Maulesel (through Latin). See: Middle English Nouns 'mule', Middle English Nouns 'mule', Latin Nouns 'mūlus', German Nouns 'Maul'.

Verbs referencing "mule"

English Nouns muleteer, Irish Nouns miúil, Finnish Nouns miuli.