▪ I. † ˈmulet Obs.
Forms: 5–6 mulette, 6 moulet, moylet, mwlat, 7 mulett, mullet, 4– mulet.
[a. F. mulet, dim. of OF. mul: see mule1 and -et1. Cf. Sp. muleto, It. muletto.]
1. A mule, esp. a young or small mule.
| 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 1330 Now comeþ Gij soft rideing Opon a mulet ambling. 1481 Caxton Godeffroy lxxvi. 122 Horses and mulettis. 1526 Househ. Ord. (1790) 200 Moyles 2. Moyletts 23. Ibid. 204 Keepers of carriage Moulets. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 64 One of the Mulettes brake from her keper, and ouerthrewe the chestes. 1563 in Rental Bk. Cupar Angus (1879) II. 278 For furnesing of the quenis grace mwlatis. 1686 Burnet Trav. iii. (1750) 158 A Mullet's Load of Trunks and Portmanteaus. |
2. A muleteer. rare—1. (? erron.)
| c 1575 J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) 7 There as a mulett to attend his master's mule. |
3. ‘A Portuguese craft, with three lateen sails.’
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |
▪ II. mulet
obs. form of mullet.