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mule litter

mule litter noun: a litter pulled or borne by one or more mules.

mule litter: a litter pulled or borne by one or more mules
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Noun

mule litter (plural mule litters)

  1. A litter pulled or borne by one or more mules.
    • The traveller may ride a donkey, a mule, or a pony; or he may use a barrow, a cart, a sedan chair, a boat, or a shentzŭ... The shentzŭ belongs more particularly to the north, and might be best described as a large sedan chair having an arched roof, the floor of the chair roomy enough to let a...1896, Alexander Armstrong, In a Mule Litter to the Tomb of Confucius, pages 2-3

Forms of mule litter

pluralmule litters
alternative formmule-litter
alternative formmulelitter

Questions about mule litter

What does mule litter mean?
Mule litter means a litter pulled or borne by one or more mules.
What part of speech is mule litter?
Mule litter is a noun.
What is the plural of mule litter?
The plural of mule litter is mule litters.

Words near mule litter in the dictionary

  1. mule fat
  2. mule kick
  3. mule kicks
  4. mule killer
  5. mule killers
  6. mule litter
  7. mule litters
  8. mule pulley
  9. mule pulleys
  10. mule shoe
  11. mule shoes

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