Bou-let’, n.

(bōō-lĕt’), n. [Fr. boulet (of cannon), bullet, ball, shot; (of horses), a fetlock-joint, pastern-joint, bouleté, having the fetlock or pastern-joint bent forward; boulet, from boule, ball, Lat. bullula, any object swelling up and thus becoming round, from bullare, to be in a bubbling motion. Cf. BILL, n., a written paper.] (Man.) A horse whose fetlock or pastern-joint bends forward, and out of its natural position.