Mule (disambiguation)

Mule has several meanings, generally referring to:

• The mule is a hybrid of a female horse and a male donkey.

Alternatively, it can refer to the following.

Creatures

• Mule is also used by cagebird breeders to refer to hybrids of finch species bred in captivity, such as goldfinch and canary.
• In British Sheep farming, the mule is a cross between a Bluefaced Leicester Ram and a fell ewe, especially a Swaledale or Cheviot. Half of England's cross bred ewes are mules, producing prime lamb when crossed with a meat breed.
• The Mule Deer is a deer whose habitat is in the western half of North America.
• Twenty mule teams were teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons that ferried borax out of Death Valley from 1883 to 1889.

Culture, arts, fiction

• M.U.L.E., a 1983 multiplayer video game.
• The Mule, a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series.
• Muffin the Mule is a puppet character in BBC television programmes for children
• Mule Variations is a 1999 album by Tom Waits.
• The Taurean Mule is an intermediate ship in the fictional TradeWars 2002 universe.
• Francis the Talking Mule is a fictional mule, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s.
• Gov't Mule is a jam band formed in 1994.

Computers, software

• Similarly, MULE email is used to attract spam that might be sent to another account.
• Mule is a Java-based Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) messaging framework [1].
• MULE the MUltiLingual Extension to Emacs allowing editing text written in multiple languages
• In video games, and in particular in MMORPGs, a mule or multi is a subsidiary character used as a beast of burden.

Places

• The Mule Mountains are a north/south running mountain range located in the south-central area of Cochise County, Arizona.
• Mule Barn, Oklahoma, a city in the United States.
• Mule, a place in Levanger

Other uses

• In crime, a mule, is someone who, knowingly or unknowingly, smuggles something onto an airplane or across a national border, sometimes aware that they are smuggling, but not knowing what is in what he or she smuggles.
• A Mule is a type of slipper that is backless and often open-toed.
• In numismatics, a mule is a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece.
• The Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment (MULE) vehicle, an autonomous ground vehicle.
• 40 acres and a mule is the colloquial term for compensation that was to be awarded to freed American slaves after the Civil War.
• 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks is the production company of filmmaker Spike Lee.
• The Kansas City Mule is a passenger train operated by Amtrak running between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri.
• A Moscow Mule is a cocktail.
• Marcel Mule (1901–2001), a classical saxophonist.
• The Spinning Mule was a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Crompton in 1779 and also known as Crompton's mule.
• A mule also refers to a mixed drink of ginger ale, vanilla vodka, and a touch of lime juice.

See also

• Mul, a fictional race of humanoids in Dark Sun Dungeons & Dragons setting.