Object

• ox: That's what Paul said to Timothy: ' The scripture saith, thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.

• dog: Indeed, the owner of the dog told officers that after the incident she had made the decision to muzzle the dog in public.

• press: Local journalists told the CPJ the Zanzibar authorities are seeking to further muzzle the press in the run-up to general elections in October.

Converse of object

• wear: Sometimes other dogs can be funny with a dog wearing a muzzle.

• remove: Slightly tilt the bottle and carefully remove the wire muzzle and foil.

Adjective modifier

• blunt: The jaw is wide at the hinge tapering to a broad blunt muzzle.

• broad: The jaw is wide at the hinge tapering to a broad blunt muzzle.

• black: Pretty mare with star and snip on a black muzzle.

• short: Good broad skull, nice short square muzzle, well placed eyes with good expression.

• fine: The head viewed face on resembles a triangle tapering in straight lines to a fine muzzle.

• long: Judy said that the proportions should be a slightly longer muzzle compared to skull.

Modifies a noun

• velocity: However, this would be much less of a problem with a high muzzle velocity.

• loader: We need new weapons, not the muzzle loader types.

• loading: The largest muzzle loading guns produced for the navy.

• brake: The gun had a muzzle brake which absorbed up to 55 percent of the recoil energy.

• blast: I slide off my seat looking out the port and the muzzle blast blows my hair back.

• rifle: The muzzle loading rifle presents an entirely different problem.

Used with why or when

• when: Greyhounds are often seen as being vicious animals because they wear muzzles when racing.

Preposition: of

• gun: The trainee would lie on the floor with the muzzle of the gun touching the target.