单词 | fetlock |
释义 | fetlockn. 1. a. That part of a horse's leg where the tuft of hair grows behind the pastern-joint; the tuft itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > fetlock fetlockc1325 fetterlock1587 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > fetlock > tuft of hair on fetlockc1325 c1325 Coer de L. 5816 Up to the feetlakkes in blood. c1330 Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing) 5892 To þe fitlokes in þe blod. a1400–50 Alexander 2049 Þat foles ferd in þe flosches to þe fetelakis. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvii Her horses went in blood up to the fytlokys. 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciij Fetlocks shag, and long. View more context for this quotation 1596 Bp. W. Barlow tr. L. Lavater Three Christian Serm. i. 21 Falling to the ground they laie so thick, that they couered the horse footelockes. 1621 G. Sandys tr. Ovid First Five Bks. Metamorphosis iv. 110 Where Titan's panting steeds..bathe their fierie Fetlocks in the Deepe. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 349 White were the Fetlocks of his Feet. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 397 This wilderness, where the horse sinks to his fetlocks at every step. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 47 The horses were often to the fetlock. 1880 R. Browning Muléykeh in Dramatic Idyls 36 Her fetlock is foam-splashed too. b. transferred of a human being. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > [noun] shanka900 legc1300 grainsa1400 limbc1400 foot?a1425 stumpa1500 pin?1515 pestlea1529 boughc1550 stamp1567 understander1583 pile1584 supporters1601 walker?1611 trestle1612 fetlock1645 pedestal1695 drumstick1770 gam1785 timber1807 tram1808–18 fork1812 prop1817 nethers1822 forkals1828 understanding1828 stick1830 nether person1835 locomotive1836 nether man1846 underpinning1848 bender1849 Scotch peg1857 Scotch1859 under-pinner1859 stem1860 Coryate's compasses1864 peg1891 wheel1927 shaft1935 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun] footOE heelOE toec1290 pettitoes1590 goers1612 hoofa1616 fetlock1645 stamper1652 fetterlock1674 pedestal1695 trotter1755 footsie1762 dew-beaters1811 pedal1838 mud-hook1850 tootsy1854 tootsicum1860 gun-boat1870 mundowie1880 plate of meat1887 trilby1895 dog1913 puppies1922 1645 Z. Boyd Holy Songs 440 These..dance and leap..With nimble fet-locks. 2. An apparatus fixed on the leg of a horse to prevent running away; = fetterlock n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > hobble or fetter fetterlockc1440 shackle1529 trammelc1550 manacle1553 rapshin1677 fetlock1695 French lock1704 heel rope1854 1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 171 Each Horse..is only fasten'd to a Stake and Fetlocks. 1828–40 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Fetlock or Fetterlock, a horse fetlock. 1856 [see fetlock-chain n. at Compounds 1]. 1889 in C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry Compounds C1. General attributive. fetlock-chain n. ΚΠ 1856 J. G. Whittier Old Burying Ground 19 The farm-horse drags his fetlock chain. fetlock-hair n. ΚΠ c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 107 Whereon the Foot-lock Hair does grow. fetlock-joint n. ΚΠ 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Parts Horse's Body The Pastern or Footlock Joint. 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) xvi. 349 A serious affection of the fetlock-joint. C2. fetlock-boot n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Fetlock-boot..a protection for the fetlock and pastern of a horse. fetlock-deep adj. (and adv.) so as to cover the fetlocks. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vii. 77 Wounded steeds Fret fet-locke deepe in gore. View more context for this quotation 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 172 The boy..reined up his horse fetlock deep in water. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325 |
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