fetlock

English

Alternative forms

• fetterlock, fewterlock (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, equivalent to foot +‎ lock (“tuft of hair”). Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).

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Noun

fetlock (plural fetlocks)

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Wikipedia

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.

Derived terms

• fetlocked

Translations

joint of the horse's leg

Azerbaijani: topuq (az) Czech: spěnka f Dutch: kogelgewricht (nl) n Finnish: vuohisnivel French: boulet (fr) m German: Fesselgelenk n Icelandic: hófskegg n Indonesian: keting (id) Irish: rúitín m Italian: nodello (it) m Japanese: 球節 (きゅうせつ, kyūsetsu) Khmer: កកែប (km) (kɑkaep) Navajo: akéʼiil Norman: boulet m (Jersey) Ottoman Turkish: طوپوق (topuk), طوپاق (topak) Polish: staw pęciny m Portuguese: boleto (pt) m Russian: щётка (ru) f (ščótka) Spanish: menudillo m, cerneja (es) f Turkish: kestanecik (tr) Welsh: egwyd f, swrn m, uffarn f

tuft of hair

Finnish: vuohistupsu