Mule (disambiguation)

A mule is a hybrid equid, a cross of a female horse and a male donkey, often used for transport in rugged terrain.

Mule or MULE can also refer to:

Animals

• Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), a North American species of deer (not a hybrid) with large mule-like ears
• 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

• Francis the Talking Mule, featured in seven movie comedies in the 1950s
• Mule (Foundation), a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series
• Muffin the Mule, a puppet character in BBC television programmes for children
• Taurean Mule, an intermediate ship in the TradeWars 2002 universe

Music

• Mule (band), an American punk blues band fronted by P. W. Long
• Mule (album), a 1990 album by Alice Donut
• "The Mule", a song by Deep Purple from the album Fireball
• "Mule", a song by goregrind band Agoraphobic Nosebleed

People

• Marcel Mule (1901–2001), classical saxophonist
• The Mule, Johan Franzén, ice hockey player

Places

• Mule Mountains, a mountain range in Cochise County, Arizona
• Mule Mountains (California), a mountain range in Riverside County, California
• Little Mule Mountains, a mountain range in Imperial County, California
• Mule Barn, Oklahoma, a city in the United States
• Mule, Norway, a place in Levanger, Norway
• Muleshoe, Texas, a city in the United States

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

Transport

• Mule (smuggling) or drug mule, a person used to carry contraband
• Money mule, a person who transfers stolen money or ships stolen goods across country lines
• Mule, a light utility vehicle produced by Kawasaki and by extension any similar vehicle
• Multifunctional Utility/Logistics and Equipment vehicle (MULE), an unmanned six-wheeled vehicle
• M274 Mule, a 4-wheel drive military vehicle, officially called U.S. Military M274 Truck, Platform, Utility 1/2 Ton, 4X4
• Mules (Amtrak), two passenger trains which ran between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri
• Development mule, a vehicle equipped with experimental or prototype components for testing

Other uses

• Mule (coin), a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece
• Mule (e-mail), an alternative e-mail account
• Mule (footwear), a type of shoe or slipper without a back
• Mule (newspaper), a non-profit, Manchester-based independent media project
• Moscow mule, and more generally mule (cocktail), a family of cocktails
• Spinning mule or Compton's mule, a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Compton in 1779

See also

• Mul (disambiguation)
• Mulesing, a controversial Australian procedure which aims to reduce fly-strike in sheep by removing folds of skin around the tail

Things connected with equid mules

• 40 acres and a mule, compensation to be awarded to freed slaves after the American Civil War
  • 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, the production company of film-maker Spike Lee
• Twenty-mule team, a team of eighteen mules and two horses, used for hauling very large wagons in Death Valley in the 19th century