sickle-hocked

[ sik-uh l-hokt ]
/ ˈsɪk əlˌhɒkt /

adjective Veterinary Pathology.

noting or pertaining to a condition of horses in which the hock, due to strained tendons and ligaments, is flexed so that the foot is abnormally bowed far under the body.
Also called sick·le-hammed [sik-uh l-hamd] /ˈsɪk əlˌhæmd/.

Origin of sickle-hocked

First recorded in 1600–10

Words nearby sickle-hocked

sickle cell-thalassemia disease, sickle feather, sickle medick, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell test, sickle-hocked, sicklebill, sicklemia, sickling, sickly, sickness

Example sentences from the Web for sickle-hocked

  • "All the same I had a very good mare once that was sickle-hocked," she said.

    Dodo Wonders |E. F. Benson