Lexic.us

Definition of Mule skinner

1. Noun. A worker who drives mules.

Definition of Mule skinner

1. Noun. muleteer, a driver of one or more mules ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mule Skinner

Literary usage of Mule skinner

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

1. Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse by Henry Herbert Knibbs (1914)
"... THE MULE-SKINNER THE clack and clatter of the chain; the staggering pull to top the crest, The brake-line slack; below, the plain and twenty mules, ..."

2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"or as " mule-skinners," stalking beside their slow-moving (NED) 1909 In 1879, Harry Pye, a " mule-skinner " in the employ of supplies, found indications of ..."

3. Border Tales: Around the Camp Fire, in the Rocky Mountains by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, Hablot Knight Browne (1878)
"Toiling on through a blinding storm, another time you can't avoid hearing a " mule skinner," and you are astonished at his inventions and the singularity of ..."

4. Border tales around the camp fire, in the Rocky mountains by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle (1878)
"Toiling on through a blinding storm, another time you can't avoid hearing a " mule skinner," and you are astonished at his inventions and the singularity of ..."

5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... the forest behind of us, the bearded "mule-skinner" urging on his beasts with cracking whip and a crackle of oaths. I waded toward him through the mire. ..."

6. Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse by Henry Herbert Knibbs (1914)
"... THE MULE-SKINNER THE clack and clatter of the chain; the staggering pull to top the crest, The brake-line slack; below, the plain and twenty mules, ..."

7. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"or as " mule-skinners," stalking beside their slow-moving (NED) 1909 In 1879, Harry Pye, a " mule-skinner " in the employ of supplies, found indications of ..."

8. Border Tales: Around the Camp Fire, in the Rocky Mountains by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, Hablot Knight Browne (1878)
"Toiling on through a blinding storm, another time you can't avoid hearing a " mule skinner," and you are astonished at his inventions and the singularity of ..."

9. Border tales around the camp fire, in the Rocky mountains by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle (1878)
"Toiling on through a blinding storm, another time you can't avoid hearing a " mule skinner," and you are astonished at his inventions and the singularity of ..."

10. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... the forest behind of us, the bearded "mule-skinner" urging on his beasts with cracking whip and a crackle of oaths. I waded toward him through the mire. ..."

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