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noun
A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ankle
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
projection behind and above a horse's hoof
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: process, outgrowth, appendage
noun
the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fetlock joint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: joint, articulation, articulatio
History
From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, taken to be foot + lock (“tuft of hair”) but actually a misdivision of Old English -oc. Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).
Across languages
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
