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fetlocks

fetlocks is the plural of fetlock.

Meaning of fetlock

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.

Questions about fetlocks

What is fetlocks the plural of?
Fetlocks is the plural of fetlock.

Words near fetlocks in the dictionary

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

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