fetlock

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A point a little above the fetlock is usually the seat of the injury.

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  1. noun A projection on the lower part of the leg of a horse or related animal, above and behind the hoof.
  2. noun A tuft of hair on such a projection.
  3. noun The joint marked by such a projection.

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  • After its fall into the strong current at the bottom of the thunder-hole, the fetlock was almost certainly swept out to sea, beyond recovery. —  FSF,June2008
  • "The angle of the foot and pastern has a physical effect on the angle of the fetlock, which is the major site of the change of direction and absorption of the force being directed down the limb," he explained. —  TheHorse.com News
  • By A. Liautard 298 Diseases of the fetlock, ankle, and foot. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • As progress is made little by little the hand is slid down from the region of the knee to the fetlock, and finally that is secured and brought up into the passage, when parturition will proceed without hindrance. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • As the different degrees of the shortening of the leg affect the motion of the fetlock, the lameness may be very slight or quite extreme. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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  1. Middle English fitlok; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. fetterlock, fewterlock; from Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes, plural, = Dutch vitlok, vitslok (Halma, cited by Wedgwood) = Middle High German vizzeloch, G. dial, fissloch, fisloch, fislach, fetlock, pastern. The second element is (apparently) Middle English lokk, English lock, a tuft of hair, but in sense 3 (and in fetterlock, 2) it is lock. The first element is usually regarded as a form of foot (cf. fetter, n., and G. fessel, a fetter, also a fetlock), though by some compared with G. fitze, Middle High German vitze, Old High German fizza, a skein of thread or yarn, = Icelandic feti, a strand, = Danish fid, fed, a skein.
 

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