Mules noun. [mju:lz] Chiefly Austral. M20.
[J. H. W. Mules (d. 1946), Austral. sheep-farmer.]
Used attrib. and in possess. to designate an operation developed by Mules to reduce blowfly strike in sheep by removing the folds of skin in the crotch most likely to be affected.

■ mulesed [mju:lzd] adjective (of a sheep) treated by the Mules operation M20.

■ mulesing noun the application of the Mules operation M20.

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