Fetterlock, Fetlock:
Fetter, sharing its etymology with foot, means to hold back or restrain. The link between
fetter (foot) and restrain is
fetterlock - a D-shaped devise used to hobble horses. The
fetterlock should not be confused with
fetlock, a part of a horse foot (
fet) and possibly the location where the
fetterlock was attached. Today the
fetterlock is mostly (exclusively) used in heraldry.
"Beautiful horses," Clint said to one man who was brushing a horse's fetlock and he grunted and didn't even look up.
On one side was the Deravenel family emblem, of the rose and fetterlock, the rose enameled white.
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