nose bag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of nose bag
First recorded in 1790–1800
Example Sentences
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It was a long canvas nose bag with straps to go over a horse’s ears.
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Hazel had eaten various roots in his life, but only once before had he tasted carrot, when a cart horse had spilled a nose bag near the home warren.
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Nose′bag, a bag for a horse's nose, containing oats, &c.;
From Project Gutenberg
In each troop a man is detailed to walk the picket line while grain is being fed, to look out for the horses generally and to take off the feed or the nose bag of a horse as soon as he has finished feeding.
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Better beat it over there before you put on the nose bag.
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