fetlock
nounEtymology
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”).
Definitions
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.
The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at fetlock. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at fetlock. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at fetlock
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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