Fetlock

Definitions

1. A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
2. The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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