Fetlocked

a. [f. FETLOCK sb. + -ED².] a. Having a fetlock. b. Hobbled or fastened by the fetlock; hence, hampered, shackled.

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1724. Pattison, in Prior’s Poems (1733), III. xli.

	The Marriage-State is Imag’d to the Life,
	The Careless Husband and the Peevish wife;
	The Troubles of the Fetlock’d-Couple shew,
	And either Sex is open’d to the View.

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1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 157. Shakespeare, then, found a language already to a certain extent established, but not yet fetlocked by dictionary and grammar mongers, a versification harmonized, but which had not yet exhausted all its modulations, nor been set in the stocks by critics who deal judgment on refractory feet that will dance to Orphean measures of which their judges are insensible.

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