fetlock
pronunciation
How to pronounce fetlock in British English:
UK [ˈfetlɒk]
How to pronounce fetlock in American English:
US [ˈfetlɑk]
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- Noun:
- the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
- projection behind and above a horse's hoof
Word Origin
- fetlock (n.)
- "tuft of hair behind the pastern-joint of a horse," early 14c., fetlak, from a Germanic source (cognates: Dutch vetlock, Middle High German fizlach, German Fiszloch), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *fetel- (source of German fessel "pastern"), from PIE *ped-el-, from root *ped- (1) "foot" (see foot (n.)). The Middle English diminutive suffix -ok (from Old English -oc) was misread and the word taken in folk etymology as a compound of feet and lock (of hair).
Example
- 1. Bilateral congenital flexural deformity of carpal joint and fetlock on forelimbs in a goat .