fetlock

[ fet-lok ]

noun
  1. the projection of the leg of a horse behind the joint between the cannon bone and great pastern bone, bearing a tuft of hair.

  2. the tuft of hair itself.

  1. Also called fetlock joint . the joint at this point.

Origin of fetlock

1
1275–1325; Middle English fitlok, akin to Middle High German viz(ze)loch, ultimately derivative of Germanic *fet-, a gradational variant of *fot-foot

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How to use fetlock in a sentence

  • Sedgett, as I passed, made a sweep at my horse's knees, and took them a little over the fetlock.

    Rhoda Fleming, Complete | George Meredith
  • Across the beautiful white shoulders and reaching down clear to the fetlock there ran a broad stain, dull red and horrible.

    Corporal Cameron | Ralph Connor
  • More than one horseman turned home that day with a red bandage round his horse's fetlock, for Kilmanagh stones are sharp.

    Lives of the Fur Folk | M. D. Haviland
  • Violette sprang madly forward, and I thought she had been wounded, but it was only a graze above the near fore-fetlock.

  • Pastern, pas′tėrn, n. the part of a horse's foot from the fetlock to the hoof, where the shackle is fastened.

British Dictionary definitions for fetlock

fetlock

fetterlock

/ (ˈfɛtˌlɒk) /


noun
  1. a projection behind and above a horse's hoof: the part of the leg between the cannon bone and the pastern

  2. Also called: fetlock joint the joint at this part of the leg

  1. the tuft of hair growing from this part

Origin of fetlock

1
C14 fetlak; related to Middle High German vizzeloch fetlock, from vizzel pastern + -och; see foot

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