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.
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Pastern
//ˈpæstəɹn//
Synonyms for "pastern" (21 found)
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Translations
25 translations across 20 languages.
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bağancaq noun (area on a horse's leg)
- buxovluq noun (area on a horse's leg)
Bulgarian
1 entries- надкопитна става noun (area on a horse's leg)
Catalan
1 entries- travador noun (area on a horse's leg)
Dutch
1 entries- koot noun (area on a horse's leg)
Esperanto
1 entries- pasterno noun (area on a horse's leg)
Finnish
1 entries- vuohinen noun (area on a horse's leg)
French
1 entries- paturon noun (area on a horse's leg)
German
2 entries- Fessel noun (area on a horse's leg)
- Köte noun (area on a horse's leg)
Hungarian
1 entries- csüd noun (area on a horse's leg)
Icelandic
1 entries- hófhvarf noun (area on a horse's leg)
Ingrian
2 entries- babka noun (area on a horse's leg)
- poohan noun (area on a horse's leg)
Maranao
1 entries- bakowaw noun (area on a horse's leg)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- بوقاغیلق noun (area on a horse's leg)
- بیلكچه noun (area on a horse's leg)
Polish
1 entries- pęcina noun (area on a horse's leg)
Portuguese
1 entries- quartela noun (area on a horse's leg)
Russian
1 entries- ба́бка noun (area on a horse's leg)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- puto noun (area on a horse's leg)
Spanish
1 entries- cuartilla noun (area on a horse's leg)
Turkish
1 entries- bukağılık noun (area on a horse's leg)
Welsh
2 entries- egwyd noun (area on a horse's leg)
- meilwng noun (area on a horse's leg)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Below me, somewhere in the horse-lines, stood Cockbird, picketed to a peg in the ground by a rope which was already giving him a sore pastern.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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