fetlock
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- Scrabble points
- 16
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- 18
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- 7
Definition of fetlock
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
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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.”
- The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
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Etymology
From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, taken to be foot + lock (“tuft of hair”) but actually a misdivision of Old English -oc. Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).
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