muzzles

/M AH1 Z AH0 L Z/
noun
  1. 1

    The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws; the snout

  2. 2

    The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.

  3. 3

    A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

  4. 4

    A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle

  5. 5

    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
  1. 1

    To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

  2. 2

    To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.

  3. 3

    To veil, mask, muffle.

  4. 4

    To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

  5. 5

    To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muzzle, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muzzles