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Webster 1913 Edition

Fetlock

Fet′lock

,
Noun.
[OE.
fetlak
,
fitlock
, cf. Icel.
fet
pace, step,
fit
webbed foot of water birds, akin to E.
foot
. √ 77. See
Foot
.]
The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.
Their wounded steeds
Fret
fetlock
deep in gore.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Fetlock

FET'LOCK

,
Noun.
[foot or feet and lock.] A tuft of hair growing behind the pastern joint of many horses. Horses of low size have scarce any such tuft.

Definition 2024

fetlock

fetlock

English

Alternative forms

  • fetterlock, fewterlock (dialectal)

Noun

fetlock ‎(plural fetlocks)

  1. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof, also called the "ankle".

Derived terms

  • hairy about the fetlocks

Translations

Fetlock joint: the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern.

Etymology

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

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