Usually means: Device restricting animal's mouth movement.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. muzzles: Merriam-Webster
  2. muzzles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. muzzles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Muzzles, muzzles: Wordnik
  5. muzzles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. muzzles: Wiktionary
  7. muzzles: Dictionary.com
  8. muzzles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. muzzles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muzzles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. muzzles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. muzzles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. muzzles: Medical dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muzzles: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (muzzle)

noun:  The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
noun:  (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
noun:  A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
noun:  (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
verb:  (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
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