1. 1球節(馬蹄正上方的關節,常帶一撮毛)

    The fetlock is the joint at the back of a horse’s leg, just above the hoof — the bit that looks a little like an ankle, often with a of long hair hanging down. Riders and vets talk about it all the time (a swollen fetlock, a fetlock injury). If you do not spend time around horses, you may only meet it in a story. It is a body-part word, not a verb, and not a lock of hair on a person’s head.

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組成From Middle English. People have long taken it as foot + lock (“a tuft of hair”), which fits the tuft on the joint — but it is actually a misdivision of an old ending -oc. There are cousin words in Dutch and German.

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

fetlocknoun

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    The tuft of hair that grows at this joint.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。