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Joint in ponies and, abroad, in many sheep
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fetlock
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tuft of hair behind the pastern-joint of a horse," early 14c., fetlak , from a Germanic source (cognates: Dutch vetlock , Middle High German fizlach , German Fiszloch ), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *fetel- (source of German fessel "pastern"), from PIE ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetlock \Fet"lock\, n. [OE. fetlak, fitlock, cf. Icel. fet pace, step, fit webbed foot of water birds, akin to E. foot. [root] 77. See Foot .] The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof, also called the "ankle".
Usage examples of fetlock.
Give me the Saltings of Essex with the east winds blowing over them, and the primroses abloom upon the bank, and the lanes fetlock deep in mud, and for your share you may take all the scented gardens of Sinan and the cups and jewels of his ladies, with the fightings and adventures of the golden East thrown in.
Fortunately the Gwadlipichee subsides as rapidly as it rises, and just before dawn the syce came splashing back, with the ponies only fetlock deep in water.
And now beneath the rising sun, Whose shining chariot overpeers The irradiate ridge, while fetlock deep In the rich soil his coursers plunge - How grand in robes of light it looks!
I felt my way up over the coronet to the fetlock and after some palpation I located a spot near the distal end of the metacarpus which was painful on pressure.
Beneath smooth, unfringed fetlocks, each hoof was a single, solid toe.
Hers were a beardless chin, untasseled ears, and fetlocks unfringed with feathery down.
It was sloping upwards, that ploughland, and the horses were over their fetlocks in the red, soft soil.
I should apply a hot antiphlogistine poultice just above the fetlock and alternate with a cold hose on it twice a day.
He beat a thrust aside, ducked into a shield-boss, and with the strength of desperation grappled a wrist as thick as a horse's fetlock, twisted, and hurled Wigga the champion over his thigh in a village-green cross-buttock throw.
Its fetlocks were tapered yet muscular, more jumper than draught horse.
The unicorn tossed his head, then came down to the sandbar, dipped a front leg up to the fetlock joint, and cautiously drank.
She did a few stretching exercises, working out the kinks in her rump, stifles, gaskins, hocks, and fetlocks.
She was a beautiful creature with the Roman nose of a Clydesdale and the smooth, untufted fetlocks of a Percheron.