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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A projecting part with an opening, as at the end of a hose, for regulating and directing a flow of fluid.
  2. n. Slang The human nose.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See nozle.
  2. An obsolete form of nuzzle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
  2. n. A short outlet or inlet pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything.
  2. n. A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe.
  3. n. A short outlet, or inlet, pipe projecting from the end or side of a hollow vessel, as a steam-engine cylinder or a steam boiler.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged
  2. n. informal terms for the nose

Etymologies

  1. From earlier nosle, equivalent to nose +‎ -le (diminutive/agent suffix). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English noselle, socket on a candlestick, diminutive of nose; see nose. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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