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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fetlock \Fet"lock\, noun [OE. fetlak, fitlock, cf. Icel. fet pace, step, fit webbed foot of water birds, akin to E. foot. [root] 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. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fetlock
noun
1: the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern [syn: {fetlock joint}]
2: projection behind and above a horse's hoof
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "fetlock": arch, bang, bangs, clubfoot, digit, dog, extremity, fleck, flock, foot, forefoot, forelock, forepaw, fringe, harefoot, heel, hoof, instep, pad, pastern, patte, paw, pedal extremity, pedes, pes, pied, pug, quiff, sole, splayfoot, toe, tootsy, trotter, tuft, ungula
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