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Word: muzzle
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Meaning:
Noun:
- a device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its head
- Scottish a piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
- historical an openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries
- the mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech
- the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
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Verb:
- intransitive to bring the muzzle or mouth near
- figuratively to restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence
- obsolete to fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle
- obsolete to veil, mask, muffle
- transitive to bind or confine animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting
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