Mule (disambiguation)

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A mule is a hybrid animal, a cross of a female horse and a male donkey.

Mule, Mules, MULE or The Mule can also refer to:

Animals

  • 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

Fiction

  • Mule (Foundation), a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
    • "The Mule", a Hugo Award-winning novella republished as the second half of the novel Foundation and Empire
  • The Mule, earlier title of the 2012 film Border Run, starring Sharon Stone
  • Taurean Mule, an intermediate ship in the TradeWars 2002 universe

Music

People

Places

Software

  • Mule (software), an open source Java-based Enterprise Service Bus
  • MULE, the MUltiLingual Extension to Emacs allowing editing text written in multiple languages
  • M.U.L.E., a 1983 multiplayer video game

Sports teams

Transport

Other uses

  • Mule (coin), a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece
  • Mule (footwear), a type of shoe or slipper without a back
  • Mule (newspaper), a non-profit, Manchester-based independent media project
  • The Mule (dance), a 1960s dance fad

See also

  • Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), a North American species of deer (not a hybrid) with large mule-like ears
  • Spinning mule or Crompton's mule, a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Crompton in 1779
  • Mule Town, Ohio, an unincorporated community
  • eMule, a peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows
  • Mul (disambiguation)
  • Mulesing, a controversial Australian procedure which aims to reduce fly-strike in sheep by removing folds of skin around the tail
  • Maultier ("Mule"), a series of German World War II half-tracks
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