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- noun Plural form of
nose-bag .
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Examples
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Then there's pasture ropes, an 'nose-bags, an' a harness punch, an 'all such things.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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Greeks and Jews squatted and smoked, their shops tended by sallow-faced boys, with large eyes, who smiled and welcomed you in; negroes bustled about in gaudy colours; and women, with black nose-bags and shuffling yellow slippers, chattered and bargained at the doors of the little shops.
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At noon stop was made at Fontaine-Francais, where the animals were watered in a stream and given nose-bags.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman
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Two horses were at the pole, seriously bowed over their nose-bags.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming
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A miniature stampede resulted until the several hundred nose-bags were adjusted and hay shook out along the picket line.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman
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'Niram unharnessed them, led them to the shade of a tree, and put on their nose-bags.
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He contended for the abolition of nose-bags, which he designated as an intolerable nuisance; urged the prohibition of chaff with oats, as unfit for the use of able-bodied horses; and indeed evinced the truth of his professions, that he 'yielded to no horse in an anxious desire to promote the true interests of the horse-community.'
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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Transport men, therefore, scoured the country side for bottoms of nose-bags, backs of dandy brushes, pieces of rope, etc., which were cleaned and handed in and quite a good stock of new articles was obtained in return.
The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman
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We used as pillows the nose-bags containing the following day's grain, and many a time were awakened by a half-famished mule poking an inquisitive muzzle under our heads.
With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett
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On a day towards the end of April the colonel and I, riding well ahead of the Brigade, passed through deserted Amiens and stopped when we came upon some fifty horses, nose-bags on, halted under the trees along a boulevard in the eastern outskirts of the city.
Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols
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