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English
English : metronymic from Mule 3.English : patronymic from Mule 1 or 2 (the Middle English word being moul until replaced by Old French mule), or a metronymic from Mould.
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French
French : possibly a derivative of Occitan burdir ‘to sport or amuse oneself’ or a variant of Bordeau.Southern French : variant of Bourdin, a nickname or metonymic occupational name, from medieval Latin burdinus ‘mule’, ‘hinny’.Russian and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : see Burda.English : variant spelling of Burdon.
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English
English : variant of Mule.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Cambridgeshire, named in Old English as ‘Mūl’s enclosure’, from Mūl, a personal name or byname meaning ‘mule’ + worð ‘enclosure’. It may also be derived from Mouldsworth in Cheshire, so called from Old English molda ‘crown of the head’, ‘top of a hill’ + worð ‘enclosure’.
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English : nickname for someone supposedly resembling a mole (the burrowing mammal), Middle English mol(le) (from Dutch or Low German mol), for example in having poor eyesight.English : nickname for someone with a prominent mole or blemish on the face, from Middle English mole (Old English mÄl).English : from an Old English masculine personal name, Moll.English : from Old Norse moli ‘crumb’, ‘grain’, possibly a nickname for a small man.French : metonymic occupational name for a knife grinder or a maker of whetstones, from a variant of meule ‘whetstone’, ‘grindstone’, ‘millstone’.Italian : variant of Mule.Slovenian : probably a nickname for a extremely religious man, from mole ‘zealot’, a derivative of moliti ‘to pray’.
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English and French
English and French : from Middle English molet, mulet ‘mullet’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish.nickname from a diminutive of Mule 2.
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English : habitational name from any of the various places with this name, as for example in Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, and North Yorkshire. For the most part these were named in Old English as ‘MÅ«la’s settlement’, from the Old English personal name or byname MÅ«la ‘mule’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’, but in some cases they may have been originally farms where mules were reared or kept. In the case of the Norfolk place name the first element was probably a personal name MÅda, a short form of the various compound names with a first element mÅd ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, ‘courage’.
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German
German : nickname for someone with a deformed mouth, or for someone who made excessive use of the mouth in eating, drinking, or talking, from Middle High German mūl ‘mouth’.German : possibly a nickname from Middle High German mūl ‘mule’.English : from Mall, a medieval pet form of the female personal name Mary (see Marie 1).
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English : from Middle English moul, an older form of mule ‘mule’, which was altered under Norman French influence (see Mule). This would have been a nickname for a stubborn person or a metonymic occupational name for a driver of pack animals.
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English : from a medieval personal name, perhaps Old English MÅ«l (from Old English mÅ«l ‘mule’, ‘halfbreed’). This was the name of a brother of Ceadwalla, King of Wessex (died 675), and is also found as a place name element. However, it may not have survived to the Conquest, and Domesday Book Mule, Mulo may instead represent Old Norse MÅ«li, which is probably from Old Norse mÅ«li ‘muzzle’, ‘snout’.English : nickname for a stubborn person or metonymic occupational name for a driver of pack animals, from Middle English mule ‘mule’ (Old English mÅ«l, reinforced by Old French mule, both from Latin mula ‘she-mule’).English : from the medieval female personal name Mulle, variant of Molle, a pet form of Mary (see Marie).French : nickname from mule ‘mule’ (see 2).Dutch : nickname for a gossip or someone with a large mouth, from Middle Dutch mule ‘mouth’, ‘snout’.Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a maker of slippers, from Middle Dutch mule ‘slipper’.Italian (also Mulé) : from the medieval nickname Mulé, Molé, from Arabic mawlÄ â€˜gentleman’, ‘lord’, ‘master’, m(a)uley ‘my lord’.Sicilian and southern Italian : status name, from Arabic mawlÄ â€˜master’, ‘owner’.
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English
From the mule farm.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : from Middle English ambler ‘walker’, ‘steady-paced horse or mule’ (ultimately from Latin ambulare ‘to walk’), probably applied to someone with a steady, easy-going temperament. Reaney suggests that it may have been a facetious nickname for a fuller.Richard Ambler is recorded in MA in 1639, in the New Haven Colony by 1647, and still living in CT in 1700. Many bearers are descended from William Ambler, who was mayor of Doncaster in 1717, at least one of whose sons settled in VA.
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v. t.
To secure with a lariat fastened to a stake, as a horse or mule for grazing; also, to lasso or catch with a lariat.
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See Mule, 4.
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A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.
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A fern of the genus Hemionitis.
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Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.
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One who drives mules.
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Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
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A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.
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The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.
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An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
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A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow.
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Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke.
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Any armadillo of the family Tatusiidae, of which the peba and mule armadillo are examples. Also used adjectively.
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A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
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Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.
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Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule.
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A very stubborn person.
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A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise.
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A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
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See Mulley.