The military leaders are warhorses, in the sense that they have nosebags filled with paper put about their necks every morning.
I saw the man stop the cart, put on the horse's nosebag and chain up the wheel.
I perpetually see horses standing with their nosebags on, though they are not feeding.
Roget classifies it as a list of containers, in close proximity to such things as "nosebag"and"swag" as giving some indication of its meaning.
