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fetlock

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7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted cefklotStarts with FEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. projection behind and above a horse's hoof

Word origin

From Middle English fitlokes, feetlakkes pl, taken to be foot + lock (“tuft of hair”) but actually a misdivision of Old English -oc. Cognate with Middle Low German fitlok, fitlock (“fetlock”), Dutch vitlok, vittelokke, vitslok, German Fissloch, Fisloch, Fislach (“fetlock; pastern”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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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