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Pastern

//ˈpæstəɹn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.

    "It was quite impossible to ride over the deeply-ploughed field; the earth bore only where there was still a little ice, in the thawed furrows the horse's legs sank in above its pasterns."

  2. 2
    the part between the fetlock and the hoof wordnet
  3. 3
    A shackle for horses while pasturing. obsolete
  4. 4
    A patten. obsolete

    "Upright he walks, on pasterns firm and straight; His motions easy; prancing in his gait So straight she walk'd, and on her pasterns high."

Etymology

From Middle English pastron, pastroun, pasturne, from Old French pasturon, diminutive of pasture (“shackle for a horse in pasture”), from Vulgar Latin pastōriā.

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