sickle-hocked

[sik-uh l-hokt]

adjective Veterinary Pathology.

noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.

Origin of sickle-hocked

First recorded in 1600–10

Also called sick·le-hammed

[sik-uh l-hamd] /ˈsɪk əlˌhæmd/.

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"All the same I had a very good mare once that was sickle-hocked," she said.
Dodo Wonders
E. F. Benson