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Horse's leg joint
Answer for the clue "Horse's leg joint ", 7 letters:
fetlock
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Fetlock is the common name for the metacarpophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints (MCPJ and MTPJ) of horses , large animals, and sometimes dogs. It is formed by the junction of the third metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bones (common name: ...
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n. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof, also called the "ankle".
WordNet
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n. the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern [syn: fetlock joint ] projection behind and above a horse's hoof
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.