Noun
A joint of the horse's leg below the knee or hock and above the hoof.
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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.
The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
Noun
the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
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projection behind and above a horse's hoof