Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bag that fits over a horse's muzzle and holds feed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
nose-bag (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse or mule); animal feed such as oats are placed in the bag, and it is fastened at the top of the head, covering the muzzle. The animal may then eat the contents while thus wearing the feedbag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A horse's
nosebag .
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
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Examples
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How often do you get to use the term "feedbag" and "Councilman" in the same sentence?
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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How often do you get to use the term "feedbag" and "Councilman" in the same sentence?
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Add the following to environment. rb to include all the required gems: config. gem "muck-feedbag",: lib = > "feedbag",: source = >
RubyForge Gems 2009
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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I took the feedbag, heavy with corn, to the barn on quivering legs.
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That to me signaled that these committed patriots are in it to win it, are digging in to fight for what is right, for fairness, for a political process freed from malignant corporate meddling, for a more sensible distribution of income which doesn't leave the 99% scrambling for the crumbs while the Goldman Sachs types gorge themselves on an obscene feedbag of earnings and capital gains and the like.
Michael Woods: Zuccotti Park Day 54: No Smell of Urine or Feces Michael Woods 2011
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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That to me signaled that these committed patriots are in it to win it, are digging in to fight for what is right, for fairness, for a political process freed from malignant corporate meddling, for a more sensible distribution of income which doesn't leave the 99% scrambling for the crumbs while the Goldman Sachs types gorge themselves on an obscene feedbag of earnings and capital gains and the like.
Michael Woods: Zuccotti Park Day 54: No Smell of Urine or Feces Michael Woods 2011
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One slow, observant walk through Wal-Mart is all we need to see that we have become a nation of fattened calves, stuporous, dependent, unable to see anything past the feedbag attached to our chins.
Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: The Next Osama Syndrome: America, the Fearful Judith Acosta 2010
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