Cannon Bone

From creamy muzzle to cannon-bone, by God, he’s a peerless wonder! ❋ Unknown (1917)

Her knees across the pan were wide, the cannon-bone below them short and thin; the pasterns long and sloping; her hoofs round, dark, shiny, and well set on. ❋ William Patten (1902)

The _hock_ (20) is the large and freely movable joint which is immediately above the hind cannon-bone. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

The hinder cannon-bone answers to the middle metatarsal bone of the human foot, the pastern, coronary, and coffin bones, to the middle toe bones; the hind hoof to the nail, as in the fore-foot. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splint-like bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon-bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, phalanges. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

He just put his leg down wrong and the cannon-bone snapped clean in two. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Mahmood Al Zarooni-trained horse broke a cannon-bone and had to be put down immediately. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He Rewilding has put the leg down wrong, and he's broken the cannon-bone clean. ❋ Unknown (2011)