MOGUL

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A person of the Mongolian race.

2.
n.

A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck. Great, or Grand, Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindostan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul. Dryden.


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