nosebag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a bag containing feed that is fastened over a horse's or similar working animal's muzzle

   The driver stopped the cart and fitted each horse with a nosebag of oats.

2. 2
   noun

   dated informal: food or a meal

   The travelers found an inn where they could put on the nosebag before nightfall.

A compound of nose + bag, named for the feed bag fitted over a horse's muzzle. By humorous extension, put on the nosebag came to mean eat a meal.

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