Definitions for fetlocks

fetlocks fet·lock

Spelling: [fet-lok]
IPA: /ˈfɛtˌlɒk/

Fetlocks is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in fetlocks (cefklost).

Definitions for fetlocks

noun

  1. the projection of the leg of a horse behind the joint between the cannon bone and great pastern bone, bearing a tuft of hair.
  2. the tuft of hair itself.
  3. Also called fetlock joint. the joint at this point.

Origin of fetlocks

1275-1325; Middle English fitlok, akin to Middle High German viz(ze)loch, ultimately derivative of Germanic *fet-, a gradational variant of *fot- foot

Examples for fetlocks

The inside of the fetlock is often bruised by the shoe or the hoof of the opposite foot.

There are three of these joints—the fetlock, pastern, and coffin.

Put the ingredients into a bag, and secure it above the fetlock.

There was no lameness and no swelling either at the fetlock or above the knee.

The function of this tendon is to flex the foot at the fetlock.

He stooped and fastened the straps about the forelegs of the horse just above the fetlock.

The fetlock is the prominent joint which is just above the hoof.

Haven't I knowed him ever since he wasn't higher'n a hoss's fetlock?

In the legs, from the base of the fetlock to that of the ham, U, V.

Cratches, a swelling on a horse's pastern, under the fetlock.

Word Value for fetlocks
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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