Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag to contain feed for a horse, having straps at its open end, by which it may be fastened on the horse's head.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bag in which feed for a horse, ox, or the like, may be fastened under the nose by a string passing over the head.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bag in whichfeed for ahorse ,ox , or the like, may be fastened under thenose by a string passing over thehead . - noun informal
Food .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head
Etymologies
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Examples
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[FN#139] The "nosebag"; vol.ii. 52, etc. The Badawíyah (Badawí woman) generally prefers a red colour, in opposition to the white and black of civilisation; and she of the Arabian Desert generally disdains to use anything of the kind.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Turns out she was the plaything of a nosebag solicitor who “took her case on”
Police Officer Seriously Injured « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Very correctly, the dictionary offers the masculine form of the word for "church" kaniis, instead of kaniisa, though, according to one trusted dictionary, kaniis also means "nosebag".
Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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Very correctly, the dictionary offers the masculine form of the word for "church" kaniis, instead of kaniisa, though, according to one trusted dictionary, kaniis also means "nosebag".
Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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Very correctly, the dictionary offers the masculine form of the word for "church" kaniis, instead of kaniisa, though, according to one trusted dictionary, kaniis also means "nosebag".
Adam Valen Levinson: Finding The Persian Gulf's Only Synagogue Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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There I was, watching Nathan's Famous Hot Dog eating contest when, once the men's championship had finished and the female troughers donned the nosebag, ESPN America made a brief announcement about how it was a "world leader in sport" and switched with indecent haste back to Major League baseball.
Women's sporting emancipation could use a famous hot dog or two 2011
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Couldn't she just go and put a nosebag on a horse instead, if it would make her happier?
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The knowledge that politicians can be led by the nose if there's an ideological nosebag stuck out in front of myopic vision.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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He did not look at Amulya but cast an irritable glance at the labourers who were taking their time, and at the stringy horse snuffling inside a nosebag.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He did not look at Amulya but cast an irritable glance at the labourers who were taking their time, and at the stringy horse snuffling inside a nosebag.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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