Mule killer

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·add. ·- A wheel bug.

II. Mule killer ·add. ·- A whip scorpion.

III. Mule killer ·add. ·- A walking-stick insect.

IV. Mule killer ·add. ·- A Mantis.

V. Mule killer ·add. ·- Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed;.

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