nose bag

noun

1. feed bag ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of nose bag¹

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

He gets out slowly, one foot at a time, hitches his horse an' ties a nose bag on his head.

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The cocher was already untying the nose-bag in which his lean brown horse had been nuzzling for fifteen minutes.

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Ffoulkes now went to the horse, detached the nose-bag, and undid the nooses of the hobble and of the tether.

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There was a silence in which he removed a nose bag, bridled and shoved a horse against the tongue.

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And there were some g-r-e-a-t b-i-g nose bags and one little-bit-of-a nose bag.

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