mulley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mulleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hornless or polled animal.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: A female caribou has antlers same as a bull, but a cow moose is a mulley.
gloss: A cow.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
dialectal
examples: Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow.
Little brother must be good, little brother mustn't cry, little brother's going to get a drop of milk from his good old Mulley.
gloss: A mule.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: 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.
Being but a little lad, I felt much afraid; With the hazel-rod I had, On the "mulley laid; Donkey kicked and ran away, And to get out of my way Turned into a field of hay, Where awhile he stayed.
'What is a mulley, father?' 'Why a thing, Jan, what had a jack-ass for his father and a 'oss for his mother.'
gloss: A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
A closer look revealed a more silvery colouration and proper teeth, identifying it as a mulley (Wallagu attu). It weighed around twenty pounds, and to prove it was no fluke, I caught three smaller.
I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings of triumph and sorrow I must admit, as I watched the Mulley come swimming along reluctantly, a beautiful, sleek supple black-seeming fish.
gloss: An upright crank-driven saw with no gate or sash.
pos: noun
examples: I have used the mulley in several mills in this State and Indiana.
These were complicated and expensive, but might easily be simplified so as to be a very valuable improvement, as the mulley, when it can be got to take the upward stroke safely and surely without increasing the thickness of the saw, is the most economical of all saws.
The mulley saw was thicker and stiffer than the gate saw, and cut a wider kerf ( Pallett, Elliott, Craik ).
It was a sash saw mill, and as a sash saw mill ran more slowly than a mulley, the capacity of the mill could not have been very large.
gloss: A light-weight harvest rake.
pos: noun
examples: a mulley harvest rake, a very light, handy and convenient article, Sam'l Stanton , Plymouth --------Diploma
Many a time has Mr. Waters swung a mulley cradle on the old farm on the north bank of Klinger lake, half way between White Pigeon and Sturgis.
gloss: A hipped gable.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A mixture of clay and loam.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
Remove the plug, spit on it, smear a little of the mulley over it, and grind in until it gets dry and squeaks, then spit on it again, and grind away, using more mulley if necessary; rinse out with water.
This works the "mulley" all over the bearing surfaces of the key.
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