Lexic.us

Definition of Mule fat

1. Noun. California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mule Fat

Literary usage of Mule fat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Long Road to Baghdad by Edmund Candler (1919)
"Mule-flesh was generally preferred to horse-flesh, and mule-fat supplied good dripping, also an improvised substitute for lamp oil. ..."

2. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1913)
""I promised that land we would give them, Of acres quite forty or more, With a mule fat and ready to tend it. That caught the fool negro, be sure. ..."

3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Mule flesh was generally preferred to horse, and mule fat supplied good dripping; also an improvised substitute for lamp oil. "The tobacco famine was a ..."

4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Mule flesh was generally preferred to horse, and mule fat supplied good dripping; also an improvised substitute for lamp oil. "The tobacco famine was a ..."

5. The Early South-English Legendary; Or, Lives of Saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in by Carl Horstmann (1887)
"... of here mule : fat hi scholde fe worse beo ; IT For fis fing, & meni ofer : fe bet hi mowe ..."

6. The Long Road to Baghdad by Edmund Candler (1919)
"Mule-flesh was generally preferred to horse-flesh, and mule-fat supplied good dripping, also an improvised substitute for lamp oil. ..."

7. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1913)
""I promised that land we would give them, Of acres quite forty or more, With a mule fat and ready to tend it. That caught the fool negro, be sure. ..."

8. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Mule flesh was generally preferred to horse, and mule fat supplied good dripping; also an improvised substitute for lamp oil. "The tobacco famine was a ..."

9. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Mule flesh was generally preferred to horse, and mule fat supplied good dripping; also an improvised substitute for lamp oil. "The tobacco famine was a ..."

10. The Early South-English Legendary; Or, Lives of Saints. I. Ms. Laud, 108, in by Carl Horstmann (1887)
"... of here mule : fat hi scholde fe worse beo ; IT For fis fing, & meni ofer : fe bet hi mowe ..."

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