- the sterile offspring of a female horse and a male donkey, valued as a work animal, having strong muscles, a body shaped like a horse, and donkeylike long ears, small feet, and sure-footedness.
- any hybrid between the donkey and the horse.
- a very stubborn person.
- any sterile hybrid.
- a hybrid, especially one between the canary and some other finch.
- a person paid to carry or transport contraband, especially drugs, for a smuggler.
- a small locomotive used for pulling rail cars, as in a coal yard or on an industrial site, or for towing, as of ships through canal locks.
- a machine for spinning cotton or other fibers into yarn and winding the yarn on spindles.
- a large triangular staysail set between two masts and having its clew set well aft.
- a hybrid coin having the obverse of one issue and the reverse of the succeeding issue, or vice versa.
- a broken or unfulfilled promise, especially one with unjust, long-term consequences: an allusion to the parcels of farmland that formerly enslaved African Americans were promised and given after the Civil War and then had taken away from them: The protesters chanted their demand, “Real action, real justice, no forty acres and a mule.”
- a lounging slipper that covers the toes and instep or only the instep.
- a woman's shoe resembling this.
- the sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse, used as a beast of burden
- any hybrid animal
- a machine invented by Samuel Crompton that spins cotton into yarn and winds the yarn on spindles
- an obstinate or stubborn person
- a person who is paid to transport illegal drugs for a dealer
- a backless shoe or slipper
