the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern

projection behind and above a horse's hoof

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.

A tuft of hair growing behind the lowest part of a horse's leg; the pastern or lowest joint.

A tuft of hair that grows behind on horses feet; the part where this hair grows; an instrument fixed on the leg of a horse when put to pasture for the purpose of preventing him from running off.

Lock of hair behind a horse's foot; place where it grows.

The tuft of hair above a horse's hoof; also, the projection and the joint at this place.

The tuft of hair growing behind the pastern joint of horses; the part where it grows.

In horses, the tuft of hair growing a little above the back part of the hoof; the joint on which such hair grows.

The tuft of hair behind a horse's pastern joint ; the pastern joint itself.

The Lance done creeps over in the night an' ties a hossha'r tight about the pony's laig jest above the fetlock. – Wolfville Nights by Alfred Lewis

The Percheron was the taller at the shoulder, the thicker round the fetlock, and, I should think, carried two extra pounds of horse- hair in mane, tail, and fetlock- tufts. – Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

At the fetlock it is placed immediately above the digital artery, but afterwards takes up a position directly behind that vessel. – Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks

Horses sank fetlock- deep in the heavy meadows, and the rough roads, hardly seen for mud, made marching difficult. – Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War by G. F. R. Henderson

But only a renewed and fiend- like scream came in reply, and horses, floundering fetlock deep, were making surprising headway, and the wild savage faces were alarmingly nearer. – The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford

Now, to make him come to thee thou must blow the call of battle, and to catch him thou must contrive to strike him on the fetlock as he runs with this musk- ball which I give thee; and to tame him thou must trace between his eyes a figure or the crescent with thy forenail. – The Shaving of Shagpat, Complete by George Meredith

Fetlock- deep in liquid mud, without rugs, wet and underfed, they hung their heads dejectedly- a silent protest against the tyranny of war. – Servants of the Guns by Jeffery E. Jeffery

I like that near- sider with the white fetlock. – Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Lever

Perhaps he was a trifle heavy in the fetlock, but he held his head haughtily erect. – Condensed Novels by Bret Harte

In the horse the thin skin posterior to the fetlock and knee, in front of the hock and on the under side of the body is most commonly inflamed. – Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D. V. M.

Our front horses had splashed fetlock deep into the water and halted the cavalcade to drink when a sudden staccato outbreak ripped the silence. – The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

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. – Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

Put the ingredients into a bag, and secure it above the fetlock. – The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

Then on to silly questions about does a horse lie down when it goes to sleep each night after its hard day's labour, and isn't her horse's sash too tight, and what a pretty fetlock he has, so long and thick and brown- Oh, do you call that the mane? – Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

As he advanced, his horse splashing through the flooded land fetlock- deep in water, green herons flapped upward, protesting harshly, circled overhead with leisurely wing- beats, and settled on some dead limb, thin, strange shapes against the deepening orange of the western heavens. – The Firing Line by Robert W. Chambers

I gives a' look 'n' the left rear tendon is tore off from hock to fetlock. – Blister Jones by John Taintor Foote

Be " Limerick" your battle- cry, And charge, till blood floats fetlock- high, Around the track of Clare's Dragoons! – Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston

Descending in company with the flexor tendons, and passing behind the carpus and beneath the carpal sheath, it continues its descent, in company with the internal plantar nerve and the internal metacarpal vein, on the inner side of the flexor tendons until just above the fetlock. – Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks