Crossword clues for nosebag
nosebag
- Muzzle attachment
- Feeder in a stable
- 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
- Oats container
- Oats-holder
- Kelso feeder
- What could feed Brummel's 4, asks Spooner?
- Assorted bones: a good source of food for Dobbin?
- Horse has eaten nothing - surely eyes bulge initially, seeing this?
- Beans go rotten in food container
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A round sack or bag to feed for a horse, mule, ox or alike animal. Usually made of canvas sides and leather bottom slipped over the nose and attached to harness my a strong strap, rope or string. Design to feed animal in public areas and to eliminate spillage from eating. 2 (context informal English) food. 3 (context informal English) A curious older woman of other peoples business or affairs.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: feedbag]
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.