On that August Thursday afternoon, there was little freight traffic; a large "K3" Mogul went down with a short, fast goods, and a W.D. 2-8-0 proceeded northward light. […] We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, pages 44, 46:
mogul
verb
UK /ˈməʊɡəl/ · US /ˈmoʊɡəl/
Etymology From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Skiing, Sports To ski over a course of humps or bumps.
mogul
noun
Etymology Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (Mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.
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A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.
a Silicon Valley tech mogul
[…] Crypto boosterism has a useful bipartisan appeal, garnering popularity among both antigovernment conservatives and socially liberal tech moguls.2022 January 25, David Yaffe-Bellany, “The Rise of the Crypto Mayors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Etymology From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Skiing, Sports A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
On the same slope, choose a steeper traverse track on a short mogul field that passes over a series of small moguls, and repeat the avalement movements.1995, Martin Heckelman, The New Guide to Skiing, page 109:
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A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
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A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.