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nosebag

a bag, fastened around the head of a horse and covering the nose, in which feed is placed
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So whether it's Joe Soap with his nose in his own little nosebag or a fatcat with his snout in a larger trough, politicians can count on public ignorance once the noughts become too bewildering.
Noughts and crosses to bear
His sardonic list of 'useful' presents included "a little crocheted nosebag from an aunt, alas, no longer with us and ...
Noah should have called 'Last Boarders' earlier than he did; Columnist
Ryan Moore''s presence aboard the Stoute-trained Courage is sure to attract plenty of attention in the Nosebag Cafeteria Maiden Stakes, but preference is for Darling Grace.
Carra to lift Beverley spoils
Lancashire advanced to 63 for one before, having lost 70 minutes of the morning's play to rain, the players toddled off, in nice, dry weather, to spent 40 minutes having their nosebag. That's cricket!
CARTER TRAMPLES OVER THE RED ROSE
The Ballydoyle colt was fitted with a 'nosebag', an aid also used to help his pollen allergy when he won at his second attempt in Tipperary last month, but it was not to be for favourite-backers.
Casbah Rock repays trainer's quick turn-out decision; NAVAN
These huge beasts were often to be seen standing patiently outside one of the many hostelries around the area, nosebag attached and munching contentedly away.
A TRIP TO THE FLICKS; Tales from the backstreets
I've mostly got it in check now but I have to keep a constant eye on it or I'd just nosebag every day.
Get stuffed to being 40; Anna Richardson is dreading her big birthday and tries to hold back the years with a bit of extreme exercising
Both father and daughter rode him, sprinkled their palms with sugar--his long blue tongue sickened me--and filled his nosebag with homemade muesli.
Match Day
A Kelly relative, for instance, is said to be "more like Evans who always took great solace from the nosebag" (2000, 59): meaning that nothing will dampen the man's appetite.
The bushranger's voice: Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) and Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter (1879)
Soon the guards were taking everyone's canteens and dumping the contents into the nosebag of a horse.
March through hell: sixty-five years later, the cruelty inflicted on helpless US and Filipino POWs during the Bataan Death March remains as shocking as ever
Again, Sweeney's account of another such symmetry has the virtue of concision: "In The Prismatic Bezel, Sebastian's detective-story parody, the fact that victim and criminal turn out to be identical is foreshadowed by their names, which form a perfect palindrome ('Nosebag' and 'G.
Nabokov's Primer: letters and numbers in the real life of Sebastian Knight
Walter, a great horseman whose father owned the Cooma livery stables, was taken aback by the loads carried by horses in South Africa: "The rider and saddle, a pair of valises with overcoat, on top of which was a blanket picquet cape, heel rope, heel peg and surcingle, two nets of hay and a nosebag of oats; a mess tin and a shoe pocket with two shoes and nails.
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