mullet
1any of several marine or freshwater, usually gray fishes of the family Mugilidae, having a nearly cylindrical body.
a goatfish.
a sucker, especially of the genus Moxostoma.
Origin of mullet
1Other definitions for mullet (2 of 3)
a starlike charge having five points unless a greater number is specified, used especially as the cadency mark of a third son.
Origin of mullet
2- Also called American star, Scottish star .
- Also mol·et [mol-it] /ˈmɒl ɪt/ .
Other definitions for mullet (3 of 3)
a hairstyle in which the hair is short in the front and at the sides of the head, and longer in the back.
Origin of mullet
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How to use mullet in a sentence
Odingseles bore “Silver a fesse gules with a molet gules in the quarter.”
Thomas of Merstone, a clerk, bore on his seal in 1359 “Ermine a lozenge with a pierced molet thereon.”
In ancient rolls of arms the word Rowel is often used, and probably indicated the pierced molet.
First of these is the Molet, a word corrupted in modern heraldry to mullet, a fish-like change with nothing to commend it.
A deed delivered at Lapworth in Warwickshire in 1466 is sealed with arms of “a molet between three demi-leopards.”
British Dictionary definitions for mullet (1 of 2)
/ (ˈmʌlɪt) /
any of various teleost food fishes belonging to the families Mugilidae (grey mullet) or Mullidae (red mullet): See also grey mullet, red mullet
the US name for grey mullet
Origin of mullet
1British Dictionary definitions for mullet (2 of 2)
/ (ˈmʌlɪt) /
a hairstyle in which the hair is short at the top and long at the back
Origin of mullet
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