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"Muelle" comes up in a poem by the Mexican poet Pedro Serrano. The context is: "...el conejo en el césped húmedo / salta y muelle su curvatura".
Can "muelle" be the 3rd person singular form of "mollir" or "mullir" in Mexican Spanish? "Mullir" is defined as "ahuecar una cosa con las manos par que esté blanda y esponjosa", which would seem to make some sense, but the 3rd person sg. form is given as "mulle" everywhere I've looked.
I am not familiar with Mexican Spanish.
mollir is a verb, though somewhat old-fashioned:
mollir
Del lat. mollīre.
1. tr. desus. Poner blando.
Although the RAE doesn't provide conjugations for mollir, it's clear it comes from muelle, which indicates a stem-changing vowel. Some of the -ir verbs permanently adopted the e→i and o→u in their stem, hence the more modern form mullir.
As a guess, what the poet was doing was wanting to use the newer springy sense of the word muelle, which would be more recognizable with the older form mollir (o→ue) than with the modern mullir (at least it is for me), in addition to older words tending to sound more poetic.
As far as I know, this isn't a regionalism as the closest entry the Diccionario de Americanismos has is amollar which is definitively unrelated.
