MUZZLE

See THRESHING.

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Muzzle. Muzzle
Grain in the East is usually thrashed by the sheaves being spread out on a floor, over which oxen and cattle are driven to and fro, till the grain is trodden out. Moses ordained that the ox was not to be muzzled while thrashing. It was to be allowed to eat both the grain and the straw (Deut. 25:4). (See AGRICULTURE.)

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muzzle. Muzzle, v. to bind up the mouth, secure, fondle

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Muz″zle (?), n. [[OE. mosel, OF. musel, F. museau muzzle or snout, LL. musellus, fr. musus, morsus. See Muse, v. i., and cf. Morsel.]] 1. 1. The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.
2. 2. The mouth of a thing; the end for entrance or discharge; as, the muzzle of a gun.
3. 3. A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting.
With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound Dryden. Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.