Hope was born July 11 with hyperextended fetlocks, meaning each rear foot was folded back to the lower leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [STLtoday.com Top News Headlines] Reference

Their fetlocks run with blood; and, when they bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid English] Reference

A black fog formed around our horses 'fetlocks as we did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Company]

They sank above the fetlocks at every step in the soft snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference

So perhaps there was more to them than fetlocks and jodhpurs after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [So farewell then Christine Pullein-Thompson] Reference

Then hopples are placed on the hind fetlocks, to keep her heels down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference

Notice her well-formed knees and fetlocks as she coyly paws the shavings on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nacho! Polo!] Reference

The horses slogged up to their fetlocks and threatened to break a bone with every step.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Map of Bones by James Rollins] Reference

Black horses with four white fetlocks had always brought disaster to those who rode them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

You take a mount there, and he'd be in over his fetlocks, then hock deep afore you know it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magi'i Of Cyador]

Because of the upright fetlocks I found it hard to judge the degree of spring in Chink's stride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

Similar scars on the inside of knees and fetlocks indicate objectionable cutting and interfering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference

Our horses and mules slogged through red mud to the fetlocks, and all of us were splashed with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

I worried about his hooves and fetlocks, or whatever they were called; but I worried more about me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magic of Recluce]

Their manes were long and unkempt, and their fetlocks were thick to the point of almost being furry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference

We had soft chalk crumbling under foot, into which the beasts sank over their fetlocks or deeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference

She ran her hands down Rolan's legs to confirm that the bindings on his pasterns and fetlocks were firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow's Fall]

But you can be sure that the runners in the Succession Stakes are loosening up and shaking their fetlocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [A view from Rural Wales] Reference

His head was golden, his mane silver, and his body a nacreous gray deepening into black fetlocks and hooves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Split Infinity]

For an instant I had a glimpse in my mind of a lifted hoof wet with slush, the fetlocks balled with gray snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

The ground is so soaked that horses 'hooves sink into it up to the fetlocks, so messages are slow coming and going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Yeah, that includes fetlocks and hocks, pasterns, withers-no, the withers is that hump on the back up near the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Otherworld]

Launcelot and his party better stood, for their horses went in blood past the fetlocks, there was so much people slain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference

The tamaraw has white marks on the fetlocks, instead of completely white lower legs like the banteng, gaur, and kouprey.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Wild Banteng] Reference

Well, haven't I a splint and a corn, and ain't one of my fore fetlocks got a formoses, and my hind legs the stringhalt?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference

However, I quickly noticed something, and that was that the manes and fetlocks seemed to be glittering as the sun hit them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference

Removing the saddles they rubbed down each animal thoroughly, clear to the fetlocks and then gave them a good feed of grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference

Now he was scrambling down to calm the hysterical horses, who were up to their fetlocks in water, their eyes wide with fright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kendermore]

There were four of them; little, shaggy, black ponies, with bunchy manes and fetlocks, not much larger than Newfoundland dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

Considerable tracts of country are so completely undermined by these animals that horses, in passing over, sink above their fetlocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Eight magnificent horses, all large palominos, trotted at the head of the vehicle, their white manes and long fetlocks smoothly combed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kinslayer Wars]

Robin gave a shrill whinny of fear as the soft mud around his fetlocks gave an ominous crackling sound and then hardened into black rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villains by Necessity]

But he only sank to his fetlocks in the dry sand, piled with pop-weed: and I tried to make him face the waves; and then I looked about me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

He had what appeared to be arthritis in his front fetlocks as well as his back hocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

The stable was a wretched shed, in which the horses sank to their fetlocks in mud and puddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference