A mule is the offspring of a female horse and a male donkey.
Mule, MULE or The Mule can also refer to:
Animals Mule (sheep), in British sheep farming, a cross between a meat ram and a hardy mountain ewe Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), a North American species of deer (not a hybrid) with large mule-like ears Mules, hybrid British finches, such as of a goldfinch and a canary
Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities The Mule (Foundation), a character in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Films Francis the Talking Mule a 1954 film, launching a series of seven films featuring the character. The Mule, also known as Border Run, a 2012 film starring Sharon Stone The Mule (2014 film), a 2014 Australian film starring Hugo Weaving, Angus Sampson, and John Noble The Mule (2018 film), a 2018 American film starring and directed by Clint Eastwood
Music Mule (album), a 1990 album by Alice Donut Mule (band), an American punk blues band fronted by P. Long "Mule", a song by Agoraphobic Nosebleed from the 7" single Agoraphobic Nosebleed "Mule", a song by Gov't Mule from the album Gov't Mule "The Mule" (song), a song by Deep Purple from the album Fireball "The Mule", a song by The Magic Numbers from the album The Magic Numbers
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media Mule (newspaper), a non-profit, Manchester-based independent media project M.U.L.E., a 1983 multiplayer video game The Mule (dance), a 1960s dance fad "The Mule", a Hugo Award–winning novella republished as the second half of the novel Foundation and Empire
People Mule (nickname), a list of people Mule (surname), a list of people with the last name Mule or Mules
Places Mule, Norway, a village in Levanger municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway Mule Island, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica Mule Keys, a group of scattered islets in the Florida Keys Mule Key, easternmost of the islets Mule Lake, a lake in Minnesota Mule Mountains (California), Riverside County, California Mule Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona Mule Peninsula, Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica Mule Point, Kemp Land, Antarctica Mule Town, Ohio, an unincorporated community The Mule (river), a river in Wales
Software Mule (software), an open source Java-based Enterprise Service Bus MULE, the MUltiLingual Extension to Emacs allowing editing text written in multiple languages
Transport Mule, the NATO reporting name of the Polikarpov Po-2 Soviet biplane Mule, a type of locomotive Mule, a light utility vehicle produced by Kawasaki and by extension any similar vehicle Mule, the U.S. Military M274 Truck, Platform, Utility 1/2 Ton, 4X4, a 4-wheel drive military vehicle Mules (Amtrak), two passenger trains which ran between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri Development mule (typically simply "mule"), a vehicle equipped with experimental or prototype components for testing Maultier ("Mule"), a series of German World War II half-tracks Multifunctional utility/logistics and equipment vehicle (MULE), an unmanned six-wheeled vehicle
Other uses Mule (cocktail), a cocktail made of a spirit, ginger beer and lime juice Mule (coin), a coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece Mule (shoe), a type of shoe or slipper without a back Mule (smuggling), a smuggler of contraband Money mule, a transferrer of laundered money Spinning mule or Crompton's mule, a textile spinning technology created by Samuel Crompton in 1779
See also
eMule, a peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows Mul (disambiguation) Muel (disambiguation) Mules (disambiguation) Mulesing, a controversial Australian procedure which aims to reduce fly-strike in sheep by removing folds of skin around the tail Mulé