fetlock

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

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

词形变化

fetlocks plural fetterlock alternative fewterlock alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
fetlocked

词源

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”).
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