It wouldn't surprise me none after that if you ups an' informs me you never shakes a fetlock in that dance called money-musk.
Then the Lance rubs his hand two or three times up an' down the lame laig above the fetlock an' elim'nates that hossha'r ligature an' no one the wiser.
It shows it's been cut off at the fetlock j'int by a knife.
The hackney should also possess good hock action, as distinguished from mere fetlock action, the propelling power depending upon the efficiency of the former.
The first consideration is to skin the limb from the fetlock up and leave the skin attached to the body.
The ulceration of the interdigital tissue may extend to the ligaments of the fetlock or produce disease of the joint or bone.
The animal should be tied and the foot fastened forward, so that the patient can just stand on it comfortably, by means of a rope or strap around the fetlock carried forward between the front legs, around the neck, and tied on the breast.
The skin is cut through circularly above thefetlock and slit up to beneath the pelvic bones on the inner side of the thigh.
It may occur on the back part of the leg above the fetlock or on the inner and fore part of the hock, corresponding in its location to windgalls and bog spavin of the horse.
Not a human being, scarcely a wayside hut, did I see during that tedious ride, as my lumbering beast stumbled over the loose stones and plashed his way, fetlock deep, through the bog.
Look at her there, with her mane all in a twist and her fetlock grazed by your clumsy pail.
Many experienced travelers were formerly in the habit of securing their animals with a strap or iron ring fastened around the fetlock of one fore foot, and this attached to the tether-rope.
They had covered ten miles of it by daybreak, their ponies travelling heavily, fetlock deep, but could advance no further.
She was off before either might raise hand or voice in protest, and they could only urge their horses in effort to overtake her, the three racing forward fetlock deep in sand.
The hind legs are almost as frequently affected as the front and the fetlock region is most often injured, though wounds may be inflicted to the coronet.
When the superficial flexor (perforatus) is ruptured there is no change in the position of the foot but the fetlock joint is slightly lowered.
The chief causes of non-infective arthritis of the fetlock joint are irritations from concussion and contusions due to interfering.
The same plan that is described in detail for treatment of similar conditions affecting the fetlock joint is indicated in this affection.
However, in non-infective arthritis of the fetlock joint, prognosis is favorable.
Such a splint or support should extend from the fetlock region to the elbow, but the cotton and bandages are to reach to the foot.
The same conditions which are responsible for open fetlock joint and other wounds of the pastern region, cause open tendon sheaths of the flexor tendons.
After the fetlockhas been shorn of hair and the ergot trimmed, the skin is thoroughly cleansed and allowed to dry.
Otherwise, a very similar condition obtains and the same diagnostic principles serve here that have been described on page 110 in considering open fetlock joint.
In such cases it will be found that very light shoes, frequently reset, will tend to prevent injury to the fetlock region such as characterizes these injuries of hind legs.
She stroked and patted Johnny who, scenting a new friend, nickered softly, tucked up his nigh fetlock in a beseeching manner, and nibbled at her for sugar.
A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlock joint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint.
A shoe fitted too wide is liable to be trodden off by the opposite foot, or it may cause the horse to hit the opposite fetlock joint.
By these terms is meant the injury to the inside of the fetlock joint which results from bruising by the opposite foot.
If we divide into two lateral halves a foot cut off at the fetlock joint, we have a section which should show the whole of the deeper structures.
He must obtain two feet cut off at the fetlock joint.
The horses were continually plunging into these fetlock deep, and sometimes almost to the knee.
It was evident that the horse must have grown rapidly more exhausted, as its feet plunged almost to the fetlock at every step.
This is fastened round the fetlock with a tape or string so that the ends are in the middle line of the leg behind, the upper half being doubled over the string so that there are two thicknesses to protect the fetlock joint.
If this happens on the inside of the hoof it is likely to cut the opposite fetlock (mawah lagna), and make a bad wound that may leave a permanent scar or blemish.
Some horses, from bad formation, move their limbs so closely together that they always rub the fetlock joints when they move.
The artery at the fetlock throbs beneath the finger.
Sweenied" shoulders are more often due to disease below the fetlock than to affections above the elbow.
Lastly, knuckling is produced by disease of the suspensory ligament or of the flexor tendons, whereby they are shortened, and by disease of the fetlock joints.
The fetlock has dropped and the leg rests upon this part, the skin of which may have remained intact or may have been more or less extensively lacerated.
Occasionally they appear in front of the fetlock on the border of the tendon.
If it proves difficult to push the fore limbs back, a noose may be passed around the fetlock of each and the cord drawn through the eye of a rope carrier, by means of which the members may be easily pushed back.
A point a little above the fetlock is usually the seat of the injury.
A rope with a running noose is passed around each fetlock and a repeller (see Plate XIV) planted in the breast is pressed in a direction upward and backward while active traction is made on the ropes.
The feel of the cool slush was pleasant, working above his hoofs and over the sensitive skin of the fetlock joint.
As his forefeet struck the ground in the midst of one of those wide circles of rope, the red-headed man lunged back, the circle jumped like a living thing and coiled itself around both forefeet, between fetlock and hoof.
They glided away as though the horses of the cowpunchers were running fetlock deep in mud; they shot up the slope towards the distant stallion like six bright arrows.
The short oblique bone between the fetlock and hoof.
To strike the fetlock with the foot--often caused by bad shoeing.
The feathering of the fetlock joint is borne up on the snow crust and its upward bend is indicative of the depth of the hole made by the hoof; one sees that an extra inch makes a tremendous difference.
Of course, the surface is very good; the animals rarely sink to the fetlock joint, and for a good part of the time are borne up on hard snow patches without sinking at all.
Often one sees the picture of an otherwise handsomely moving horse whose fetlock joint of the foot just being planted is so bent forward as to make a drop inevitable.
Hard roads soon injure the fore feet and fetlock joints if a horse is constantly cantered or galloped upon them, because the strides are longer and the weight comes down harder, and always more upon the leading fore foot than upon the other.
Defn: A soft tumor or synovial swelling on the fetlockjoint of a horse; -- so called from having formerly been supposed to contain air.
Defn: A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
Wheeling round he politely raised his cap, and galloped back to us, none the worse for his adventure, though a ball had grazed his horse's fetlock and another had left a hole in the skirt of his riding-coat.
Peat-coloured streams splashed down these valleys and over the road, through which Covenant ploughed fetlock deep, and shied to see the broad-backed trout darting from between his fore feet.
The inside of the fetlock is often bruised by the shoe or the hoof of the opposite foot.
From the passage of the girth to the fetlock, M, I, or higher in large horses and racers; to the middle of the fetlock or lower for small ones and those of medium size.
We may further add that the suspensory ligament of the fetlock in ruminants and solipeds represents, as in the fore-limbs, the interosseous muscles.
The width of the fetlock of the fore-limb, from its anterior summit to the root of the spur.
In the legs, from the base of the fetlock to that of the ham, U, V.
Finally the cool heads got the upper hand, and obtained general consent to a proposition of their own; their leader then called the house to order and stated it--to this effect: that Fetlock Jones be jailed and put upon trial.
Fetlock reasoned that Flint's mining operations had outgrown the pick, and that blasting was about to begin now.
Then, about midnight, Fetlock stepped down-stairs and took a position in the dark a dozen steps from the tavern, and waited.
Fetlock Jones hurried thither with the others and looked.
Fetlock Jones was put under lock and key in an unoccupied log cabin, and left there to await his trial.
There was one name that was upon every tongue from the start, but it was the last to get utterance--Fetlock Jones's.
Fetlock had been in this slavery for a month now, and under his meek exterior he was slowly consuming to a cinder with the insults and humiliations which his master had put upon him.
Then he fired the fuse, climbed out of the shaft, and ran fifty yards away, Fetlock following.
Mr. Holmes smiled compassionately upon the witness, and asked, languidly: "Do any of you gentlemen chance to know where the lad Fetlock Jones was at the time of the explosion?
They descended, and by command Fetlock held the drill--without any instructions as to the right way to hold it--and Flint proceeded to strike.
When we were on our way back to our cabin, toward breakfast-time, we ran upon the news that Fetlock Jones had escaped from his lock-up in the night and is gone!
The pastern (9) is the short column of bones (two in number) which lies between the fetlock and hoof.
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.
Pressure over the posterior region of the fetlockmay cause the animal pain.
Horses that have faulty action may strike the opposite fetlock with the moving foot, the inside of the opposite limb in the region of the knee, and the quarters of the front foot with the shoe of the hindfoot.
The lameness resulting from an inflammation of tendons resembles that resulting from strains and injuries to the fetlock joint, especially in the region of the sesamoid bones.
Sheep frequently suffer from inflammation of the skin over the fetlock region.
It is very common for horses to "brush" the inside of the hind fetlock with the opposite foot when trotting, especially if tired.
It may occur as a symptom of inflammation of the flexor tendons, ligaments of the fetlock joint and the articulation as well.
The treatment recommended for the new-born colt is supporting the fetlock with a light plaster bandage.
The fetlockstrap is made of a strip of thick leather, folded lengthways down its middle, and having its edges sewn together.
When the beast treads on the apparatus, he crashes through the thorns, but, on withdrawing his foot from the hole, the wreath clings to his fetlock like a ruff, and prevents the noose from slipping off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetlock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
