feedbags

Equine meal pouches

Feedbags are bags filled with grain or feed, hung from a horse's head so it can eat.

The singular feedbag appears in the informal expression put on the feedbag, meaning to eat a meal, especially a hearty one: Let's put on the feedbag—I'm starving.

equine

nosebag

Strapped-on equine feeder

  • troughOpen container for animal feed
  • hayDried feed crop
  • oatsCereal grain for porridge

grain · muzzle · stables · tack · bridle · saddle · pasture · mare · gelding · foal

farming

livestock

Domesticated farm animals

  • cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
  • silageFermented crop fodder
  • grainCereal plant's harvest unit

trough · barn · husbandry · pasture · paddock · barnyard · homestead · harvest · crop · sow

slang

eating

Ingesting sustenance

  • gorgingEating greedily, excessively
  • stuffingSeasoned mixture for cavities
  • mealOccasion for nourishment

grub · chow · gluttony · binge · feast · devouring · appetite · hungry · seconds · helpings

Opposites
feeding method

feedbagstroughs

Long narrow containers

mangers · water troughs · pasture grazing · hay bales · grazing

fullness state

feedbagsmuzzles

Animal face fronts

feeding method/apparatus

feedbagstrough

Open container for animal feed

manger · feeding trough · water trough · hay rack · pasture grazing

Family

feedbag

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G