Word Finder - mules

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The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

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The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

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A hybrid plant.

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A stubborn person.

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A person paid to smuggle drugs.

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A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

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A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

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Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

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A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.

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A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

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To smuggle (illegal drugs).

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A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

The mules were harnessed and ready to go.

A horse and rider could cover more distance in a day that the mules could pulling the heavy freight wagons.

Get those mules inside the circle of wagons and be ready for trouble.

The hardier mules are generally employed for draught, carriage, and saddle purposes in every part of the country, and their breeding is a lucrative industry in the southern states.

We visit the horses and mules in their stalls and hunt for eggs and feed the turkeys.

The mules were lathered - a condition that could be dangerous in the desert.

She fed and hobbled the mules and then started a fire to cook supper.

Grabbing an armful of the hay they had packed around the supplies in each wagon, she dropped it on the sand and the mules eagerly began devouring it.

She waited until the others were in their wagons and then slapped the lines to the backs of the mules.

Fritz and Royce were watching the mules in a makeshift corral outside the wagons.

The Indians were stealing the mules left outside the wagons.

That left only a dozen mules and the bay.

They packed as much as they could on six mules and left the other six for riding.

Bordeaux helped her into the saddle and then mounted one of the mules.

In 1392 a law put an end to riding in the Merceria, on account of the crowd, and all horses and mules were obliged to carry bells to warn foot-passengers.

Indian corn, flour, cattle, horses, mules and hides are exported to the neighbouring states.

Next in value came wool (£226,000), horses and mules (£110,000), skins, hides and horns (£106,000), tobacco (£89,000), tin, coal, copper and lead.

This change is due to the decline of horseand cattle-rearing in the llanos, partly in consequence of political disturbances and partly of a murrain which broke out in 1843 among horses, mules and asses.

Mules are bred in Piura and Apurimac, and are highly esteemed for mountain travel.

Its chief exports are diamonds, live stock (cattle, horses and mules, sheep and goats), wool, mohair, coal, wheat and eggs.

In 1858 it became the headquarters of a great freighting-firm that distributed supplies for the United States government among the army posts between the Missouri river and the Rocky Mountains; in seven months in 1859 this one firm employed 602 men, used 517 wagons, 5682 oxen, and 75 mules, and shipped 2,782,258 lb.

Shawnee is situated in a fine agricultural region, is a shipping-point for alfalfa, cotton and potatoes, is an important market for mules, and has large railway repair shops, and cotton-gins and cotton compresses; among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, cotton goods, lumber, bricks and flour.

The court itself is generally paved, and large enough to admit of three or four hundred crouching camels or tethered mules; the bales of merchandise are piled away under the lower arcade, or stored up in the cellars behind it.

When all the wagons were ready, she snapped the whip over the back of the mules.

I thought maybe you were sick this morning when I saw Bordeaux harnessing your mules.

Apparently scrounging food off the desert wasn't nearly as easy as harnessing a team of mules.

From this angle, it's hard to tell you from the mules.

Was he being sarcastic, or was he still miffed about the losing the mules?

Upper Poitou and the zone of south-western France to the north of the Pyrenees are the chief regions for the breeding of mules.

Coal was brought down from the hills on the backs of mules, and iron carried in two-ton wagons.

The Turkomans possess a famous breed of horses and keep camels, sheep, cattle, asses and mules.

The city is situated in the blue grass region of Missouri, and is a shippingpoint for horses and mules.

Mules are universally employed for animal traction, and narrow gauge lines with single-mule trams are generally used where the traffic is light.

Besides coffee there is a large trade in durra, the kat plant (used by the Mahommedans as a drug), ghee, cattle, mules and camels, skins and hides, ivory and gums. The import trade is largely in cotton goods, but every kind of merchandise is included.

In the number of mules the state ranked first by a wide margin in 1900, with 474,737 head, and in 1910 with 702,000 head.

At first the rolls were driven by workmen by means of cranks, but later they were worked by horses, mules or water-power.

The eastern and south-eastern districts have the greatest amount of stock per square mile, Ficksburg leading in cattle, horses and mules.

The mule path descends on the south side of the pass by an extraordinary series of zigzags, made accessible for mules (though no rider is now allowed to descend on mule-back) by a band of Tirolese workmen in 1740-1741.

The numbers of horses, mules, cattle and sheep increased quite steadily from 1850 to 1900, but the number of swine in 1880 and in 1900 was nearly one-third less than in 1850.

Their life is still in many respects very primitive; their houses are generally built of logs, their clothes are often of homespun, Indian corn and ham form a large part of their diet, and their means of transportation are the saddle-horse and sleds and wheeled carts drawn by oxen or mules.

The remount depot is maintained; horses and mules thrive here.

According to this report, which is not strictly trustworthy, there were in the republic 5,142,457 cattle, 859,217 horses, 334,435 mules, 287,991 asses, 3,424,430 sheep, 4,206,011 goats and 616,139 swine.

A few mules are sent to Central America, but the home demand usually exceeds the supply.

There is also a good breed of mules.

A road over the Ute Pass to South Park and Leadville was built, and at one time about 12,000 horses and mules were employed in freighting to the Leadville camps.

Donkeys and mules of various breeds are good, and would be better were they not so often weakened by heavy work before attaining full maturity.

Roads suitable for wheeled vehicles are found in Lower Egypt, but the majority of the tracks are bridle-paths, goods being conveyed on the backs of donkeys, mules and camels.

Every effort was now concentrated upon sending an expeditionary force to Suakin, and before the end of March about 13,000 men, including a brigade from India and a field battery from New South Wales, with nearly 7000 camels and 1000 mules, were there assembled.

Excellent horses are reared in the uplands, as well as mules and cattle, the pasturage on the mountain slopes being good, and alfalfa being grown in abundance in many districts.

Horses and mules are reared for export on a small scale, and sheep for their wool, which is used in home manufactures.