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Covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head
Answer for the clue "Covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head ", 7 letters:
nosebag
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Word definitions for nosebag in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nosebag \Nose"bag`\, n. 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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Especially when the nosebag held a pale blue Ceylon sapphire and two adequately flaw-free white diamonds set in eighteen-carat yellow gold. ▪ It was currently enjoying a nosebag . ▪ Offered a free bed and nosebag , Tony is there ...
Usage examples of nosebag.
Once the horses were at their last nosebags of oats, the men broke out what was left of their rations.
A battery which turned out its horses to graze found that the puzzled creatures simply galloped about the plain, and could only be reassembled by blowing the call which they associated with feeding, when they rushed back and waited in lines for their nosebags to be put on.
The barrow of ginger beer stood, a queer derelict, black against the burning sky, and in the sand pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or pawing the ground.