fetlock

English

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

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”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

fetlock (plural fetlocks)

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.

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
• 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