noun · rare

fetlock

fetlock · fetlocks

щётка

Fesselgelenk

A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoofA joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.

Meaning

2 senses

A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
Fesselgelenk
щёткаščótka
projection behind and above a horse's hoof
The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

Translations

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Русский

By meaning 1

joint of the horse's leg:

Deutsch

By meaning 1

joint of the horse's leg:

Origin

From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, taken to be foot + lock (“tuft of hair”) but

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”).

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