FETLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fetlock mean? 

• FETLOCK (noun)
  The noun FETLOCK has 2 senses:

1. the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern

2. projection behind and above a horse's hoof

  Familiarity information: FETLOCK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FETLOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The joint between the cannon bone and the pastern

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

fetlock; fetlock joint

Hypernyms ("fetlock" is a kind of...):

articulatio; articulation; joint ((anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion))

Holonyms ("fetlock" is a part of...):

horse's foot (the hoof of a horse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Projection behind and above a horse's hoof

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("fetlock" is a kind of...):

appendage; outgrowth; process (a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant)

Holonyms ("fetlock" is a part of...):

horse's foot (the hoof of a horse)

 Context examples 

Too thick about the fetlocks for me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He afterwards showed me a wisp of hay, and a fetlock full of oats; but I shook my head, to signify that neither of these were food for me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There wasn't time to write and ask leave, but you all liked it, had consented to it by-and-by, and it was only 'taking time by the fetlock', as my wife says.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Good! Bless you! Now, as there's nothing like 'taking time by the fetlock', as Winkle characteristically observes, allow me to present the new member."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)