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fetlock

fetlock noun: a joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.

fetlock: a joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof
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Noun

fetlock (plural fetlocks)

  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
    Synonyms:
    ankle
  2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

fetlock meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Indonesian

fetlock in Hindi

fetlock
टखना ṭakhnā

fetlock in Tamil

மேற்குளம்பு, குதிரைக்குளம்பு

fetlock in Urdu

fetlock
کلائی kalāī

fetlock in Indonesian

joint of the horse's leg
keting

Synonyms of fetlock

Forms of fetlock

pluralfetlocks
alternative formfetterlock
alternative formfewterlock

Origin of fetlock

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”).

Words formed from fetlock

Questions about fetlock

What does fetlock mean?
Fetlock means a joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
What is fetlock in Hindi?
Fetlock in Hindi is टखना (ṭakhnā). See Fetlock meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fetlock?
Fetlock is a noun.
What is the plural of fetlock?
The plural of fetlock is fetlocks.

Words near fetlock in the dictionary

  1. fetishizings
  2. fetishlike
  3. fetishry
  4. fetishwear
  5. fetishy
  6. fetlock
  7. fetlocked
  8. fetlocks
  9. feto-
  10. feto-maternal
  11. fetocide

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fetlock (page history and authors); टखना (Hindi) (page history and authors); fetlock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کلائی (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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