fetlock

/fet-lok/US // ˈfɛtˌlɒk //UK // (ˈfɛtˌlɒk) //

臀部,臀部肌肉,臀部肌肉发达,踠

Definitions

n.名词 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.
- : the tuft of hair itself.
- : Also called fetlock joint . the joint at this point.

Sedgett, as I passed, made a sweep at my horse's knees, and took them a little over the fetlock.
Across the beautiful white shoulders and reaching down clear to the fetlock there ran a broad stain, dull red and horrible.
More than one horseman turned home that day with a red bandage round his horse's fetlock, for Kilmanagh stones are sharp.
Violette sprang madly forward, and I thought she had been wounded, but it was only a graze above the near fore-fetlock.
Pastern, pas′tėrn, n. the part of a horse's foot from the fetlock to the hoof, where the shackle is fastened.