Mule

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A mule is a hybrid equid, a cross of a female horse and a male donkey, often used for transport in rugged terrain

Mule or MULE can also refer to:

Things connected with equid mules

• 40 acres and a mule, compensation to be awarded to freed slaves after the American Civil War
• Twenty-mule team, a team of eighteen mules and two horses, used for hauling very large wagons in Death Valley in the 19th century

Other hybrids

• Mule (bird), captive-bred hybrids of finch species such as goldfinch and canary
• Mule (sheep), in British sheep farming, a cross between a meat ram and a hardy mountain ewe
• Development mule, a vehicle equipped with experimental or prototype components for testing
• Mule (coin), a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece

Other animals

• Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), a North American species of deer (not a hybrid) with large mule-like ears

Other transport

• Mule (smuggling) or drug mule, a person used to carry contraband
• Mule, a light utility vehicle produced by Kawasaki and by extension any similar vehicle
• Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment (MULE), an unmanned six-wheeled vehicle
• M274 Mule, a 4-wheel drive military vehicle, officially called U.S. Military M274 Truck, Platform, Utility 1/2 Ton, 4X4
• Mules (Amtrak), two passenger trains which ran between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri

Music

• Gov't Mule, a jam band formed in 1994
• "Mule", a song by goregrind band Agoraphobic Nosebleed
• Mule Variations, a 1999 album by Tom Waits
• Mule (band), an American punk blues band fronted by P. W. Long

Computer games

• M.U.L.E., a 1983 multiplayer video game

Fiction

• Francis the Talking Mule, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s
• Mule (Foundation), a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
• Muffin the Mule, a puppet character in BBC television programmes for children
• Taurean Mule, an intermediate ship in the TradeWars 2002 universe

Software

• Mule (software), an open source Java-based Enterprise Service Bus
• MULE, the MUltiLingual Extension to Emacs allowing editing text written in multiple languages
• Mule (parser), a parser made at The University of Arizona

People

• Marcel Mule (1901–2001), a classical saxophonist
• The Mule, Johan Franzén, a professional ice hockey player

Places

• Mule Mountains, a mountain range in Cochise County, Arizona
• Mule Barn, Oklahoma, a city in the United States
• Mule, Norway, a place in Levanger, Norway
• Muleshoe, Texas, a city in the United States

Other uses

• 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, the production company of film-maker Spike Lee
• Moscow mule, and more generally mule (cocktail), a family of cocktails
• Mule (footwear), a type of shoe or slipper without a back
• Spinning Mule or Compton's mule, a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Compton in 1779
• Mule (e-mail), an alternative e-mail account

See also

• Mul
• Mulesing, a controversial Australian procedure which aims to reduce fly-strike in sheep by removing folds of skin around the tail

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