noun

• 1North American A strong canvas or leather bag containing fodder, hung from a horse's head so as to enable it to feed; a nosebag.

  ‘I refilled her water trough and feedbag’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Our four-legged hero doesn't even get an extra carrot in his feedbag for his efforts.’
  • ‘It'd be better if you could stick a feedbag to your face, but you can't unless you're a horse, so taking in six meals per day is your best bet.’
  • ‘Their feedbags got lighter and lighter while their loads got heavier and heavier.’
  • ‘Carrying feedbags with a ration of oats, he led Ember into the little shelter he'd prepared for the horses.’
  • ‘The bucket had been stuck on the animal's snout, hanging like a feedbag, preventing it from eating or drinking.’
  • ‘We only use feedbags when we go off trail riding and they are on the picket line.’
  • ‘She designed her own equine feedbag after her retired racehorse kept spilling and wasting his food.’

  1. 1.1A small lightweight bag containing food and drink, given to riders during a cycling race.
     ‘a helper was trying to hand out the feedbags to the riders’
     More example sentences

     • ‘The TV coverage shows a helper dancing around to hand out the feedbags to his team.’
     • ‘Oh boy, Arvesen of CSC has now gotten a feedbag caught in his back wheel.’
     • ‘The four leaders, Vinokourov, Botero, Pereiro, and Martinez, are getting their feedbags.’
     • ‘Halfway through a stage, Armstrong grabs a musette, also known as a feedbag, from a roadside team staffer.’
     • ‘After the riders have all taken their feedbags, then it gets stressful.’
     • ‘The feedbag will not hold as much stuff as a backpack.’
     • ‘For the pros, celebrating the win, taking a feedbag in the feed zone and putting a rain cape on and off are all necessary skills.’