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English[edit]

Fetlock joint: the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern.

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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)

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  1. 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.
  2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

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