Definitions
tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them
Word origin
From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
Used in a sentence
“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes, […]”
“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.”
“Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Animal's snout”6 letters
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