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Muzzle - What does it mean?

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muzzle

English

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Noun

(en noun)
  • The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout
  • The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.
  • A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
  • (chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle
  • (obsolete, 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.

    • Derived terms

    * muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

    Verb

    (muzzl)
  • To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4
    • Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
  • (figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
  • (obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
  • (obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
  • To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
  • * (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange
    • The bear muzzles and smells to him.

    Derived terms

    * muzzler

    References

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    Not English

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