Dictionary

fetlock en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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”).

Meanings

1. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
   • 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. 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

Forms

Deriveds

fetlocked

Synonyms

ankle

Translations (26)

nl kogelgewricht (joint of the horse's leg) · ja 球節 (joint of the horse's leg) · nrf boulet (joint of the horse's leg) · ru щётка (joint of the horse's leg) · ota طوپاق (joint of the horse's leg) · pt boleto (joint of the horse's leg) · es menudillo (joint of the horse's leg) · tr kestanecik (joint of the horse's leg) · de Fesselgelenk (joint of the horse's leg) · id keting (joint of the horse's leg) · fr boulet (joint of the horse's leg) · km កកែប (joint of the horse's leg) · cy uffarn (joint of the horse's leg) · nv akéʼiil (joint of the horse's leg) · cy egwyd (joint of the horse's leg) · pl staw pęciny (joint of the horse's leg) · it nodello (joint of the horse's leg) · cs spěnka (joint of the horse's leg) · is hófskegg (joint of the horse's leg) · cy swrn (joint of the horse's leg) · ota طوپوق (joint of the horse's leg) · az topuq (joint of the horse's leg) · ga rúitín (joint of the horse's leg) · fi vuohisnivel (joint of the horse's leg) · es cerneja (joint of the horse's leg) · fi vuohistupsu (tuft of hair)