mulley

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hornless or polled animal. US
    — A female caribou has antlers same as a bull, but a cow moose is a mulley.
  2. A cow. UK,childish,dialectal
    — Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow.
  3. A mule. UK,dialectal
    — Although not remarkably up in the world himself, yet he took care that the "mulley," at least, should occupy an elevated position in life; and so he had his stable on the flat roof, at the very top of the house, which is a high one; and he used to walk up and down the long flights of stairs which connected his home with the street below, "like a Christian," as we were once informed.
  4. A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
    — Streamlined for action thin, flat and long, it mouth armed with two broad lines of sharp teeth – the mulley is all that it is said to be, a "fresh water shark", an eater of offal and a killer of fish.
  5. An upright crank-driven saw with no gate or sash.
    — I have used the mulley in several mills in this State and Indiana.
  6. A light-weight harvest rake.
    — a mulley harvest rake, a very light, handy and convenient article, Sam'l Stanton , Plymouth --------Diploma
  7. A hipped gable.
    — For instance , he could make a full gable if he likes in any place, or put on a "mulley", that is, the gable hipped a part of the way down.
  8. A mixture of clay and loam.
    — The core is placed on a car and ran into the core-oven, where it remains about 15 hours, when it is withdrawn and receives a second coating of "mulley" and black wash, and again placed in the oven for 3 hours. After the core is centred in the mould, the molten iron is poured in, the spindle is then withdrawn, the straw covering consumed, the "mulley" remaining.
形容词 adj.
  1. Alternative form of muley. alt-of,alternative,not-comparable
    — Every little while I see in The Rural an article published in favor of growing mulley or hornless stock. Allow an old man of three-score years and ten, to give his experience in raising stock of the mulley kind.

词形变化

mulleys plural
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