Fetlock

(noun.) projection behind and above a horse's hoof.

(noun.) the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern.

编辑:凯利

• Now, as there's nothing like 'taking time by the fetlock', as Winkle characteristically observes, allow me to present the new member. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He afterwards showed me a wisp of hay, and a fetlock full of oats; but I shook my head, to signify that neither of these were food for me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The animals were in the direct line of his path, but that the child thought little of; he had played round the fetlocks of horses from his infancy. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

手打:撒迪厄斯