fetlock
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- fetterlock, fewterlock (dialectal)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, equivalent to foot + lock (“tuft of hair”). Cognate with Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).
Noun[edit]
fetlock (plural fetlocks)
- A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
- Synonym: ankle
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- 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.
- The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
Translations[edit]
joint of the horse's leg
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