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.
Source: wiktionary
Pastern
/ˈpæstəɹn/
Synonyms for "pastern" (26 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
5 entriesMore specific
5 entriesmiddle phalanxpastern dislocationpastern edemapastern fractureproximal phalanx
Collocations
6 entriesmiddle phalanxpastern edemapastern fracturepastern jointpastern regionproximal phalanx
Inflections
1 entriesSample 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