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Fetlock

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Noun
  1. 1
    A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.

    "It was the better part of a mile wide, but save for some fathoms in the middle, where the Sker current ran, it was no deeper even at flood than a horse's fetlocks."

  2. 2
    projection behind and above a horse's hoof wordnet
  3. 3
    The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
  4. 4
    the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, equivalent to foot + lock (“tuft of hair”). Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).

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