muzzles

Noun

muzzle (plural muzzles)

1. The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
   • The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 10

   Synonyms:

   snout

2. (broadly, derogatory, slang) A person's mouth.
3. A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
4. The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
5. (Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.

   Synonyms:

   bridle

6. (historical, obsolete) 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.

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