[mjuːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the offspring of a donkey and a horse (strictly, a male donkey and a female horse), typically sterile and used as a beast of burden

- a hybrid plant or animal, especially a sterile one

- a kind of spinning machine producing yarn on spindles, invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779

- a small tractor or locomotive, typically one that is electrically powered

- a coin with the obverse and reverse of designs not originally intended to be used together


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Origin:
Old English mūl, probably of Germanic origin, from Latin mulus, mula; reinforced in Middle English by Old French mule

[mjuːl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a woman's slipper or light shoe without a back


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Origin:
late Middle English (denoting a chilblain): from French, ‘chilblain’, ‘slipper’, from Latin mullei (plural), denoting a type of red high-soled shoe, from mulleus (adjective) ‘reddish’. The sense ‘slipper’ dates from the mid 16th century