nosebag

/ ˈnəʊzˌbæɡ /

noun

a bag, fastened around the head of a horse and covering the nose, in which feed is placed

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All the food for twelve men was in the nosebag, and it was very little; each man had a mere nibble for supper.

By peering through a crack in the boarding I could look down on the wren in the nosebag inside.

Grieving over my little friends, I cleaned out the nosebag and hung it up on its peg.

So cabby had thoughts of clapping a nosebag to his horse's jaws, and was making up his mind to a bivouac.

So Harriet stopped and picked up the nosebag and fixed it nicely on the horse's nose.

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