Fetlock is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FETLOCK in dictionary:

NOUN:
• The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair.
• the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern
• the joint of a horse's or other quadruped's leg between the cannon bone and the pastern.
• projection behind and above a horse's hoof
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• projection behind and above a horse\'s hoof

Words related to FETLOCK

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Words that contain FETLOCK

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How to use FETLOCK in a sentence

• The vicar was to have officiated, but when I got home I found a letter from him saying that he had strained a fetlock and must scratch his nomination.
• The feel of the cool slush was pleasant, working above his hoofs and over the sensitive skin of the fetlock joint.
• At the fetlock it is placed immediately above the digital artery, but afterwards takes up a position directly behind that vessel.
• When the fetlock is raised the expansion of the coronary edge of the heels disappears from behind forwards, passing forwards like a fluid wave.
• During the opposite movement of the fetlock, that of sinking backwards, this change of form is executed in the converse manner.
• On December 14 I applied a strong blister over the coronet, reaching up to the fetlock.
• I put him under the cold-water treatment for a short time, and about the middle of March again applied a strong blister over the coronet up to the fetlock.
• The pony I picketed with a long rope and a strap around one of her forward ankles, between her hoof and fetlock, as we scarcely felt like trusting her all night.
• Now, in a good bearing season, I have actually seen a narrow mountain road fetlock deep with decaying mangoes, besides the thousands consumed by man and beast.
• This fact is of great importance in influencing the course and termination in any given case of open fetlock joint and should not be forgotten.
• In one instance the author treated a case wherein the fetlock joint was perforated by the sickle-guard of a self-binder.
• Subsequent treatment is the same as has been outlined in the discussion of open fetlock joint on page 112.
• Needless to say, marked lameness and swelling of the fetlock soon take place.
• The foot may be rested on the toe or placed slightly in advance of the one supporting weight, but the fetlock is always thrown forward.
• Otherwise, a very similar condition obtains and the same diagnostic principles serve here that have been described on page 110 in considering open fetlock joint.
• The hind legs are almost as frequently affected as the front and the fetlock region is most often injured, though wounds may be inflicted to the coronet.
• In such cases it will be found that very light shoes, frequently reset, will tend to prevent injury to the fetlock region such as characterizes these injuries of hind legs.
• He got down, and cut the fetlock of one of the beasts with his jack-knife so that it bled and no one need ask questions.

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