Fetlock
['fetlɒk] or ['fɛtlɑk]
Definition
(noun.) projection behind and above a horse's hoof.
(noun.) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern.
Inputed by Kelly--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.
Inputed by Lilly
Definition
n. a tuft of hair that grows behind on horses' feet: the part where this hair grows.—adj. Fet′locked tied by the fetlock.
Edited by Aaron
Examples
- Now, as there's nothing like 'taking time by the fetlock', as Winkle characteristically observes, allow me to present the new member. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He afterwards showed me a wisp of hay, and a fetlock full of oats; but I shook my head, to signify that neither of these were food for me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The animals were in the direct line of his path, but that the child thought little of; he had played round the fetlocks of horses from his infancy. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Thaddeus