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fetlock

English

Alternative forms

  • fetterlock, fewterlock (dialectal)

Etymology

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

Noun

fetlock (plural fetlocks)

  1. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
    Synonym: ankle
  2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

Derived terms

  • hairy about the fetlocks

Translations

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windgall

English

Etymology

wind +? gall

Noun

windgall (plural windgalls)

  1. A puffy, typically fluid filled sac located just above the fetlock joint on a horse. Generally appearing on old or poorly kept horses.
    • 1844, Alexandre Dumas (anon. translator), The Three Musketeers, Spark Publishing (2004) p. 12
      It was a Bearn pony, from twelve to fourteen years old, yellow in his hide, without a hair in his tail, but not without windgalls on his legs...

Anagrams

  • Dingwall

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