pastern
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French pasturon (French pâturon), from pasture ‘shackle’ (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pastoria ‘shackle for pastured animal's foot’) + diminutive suffix.
Pronunciation
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Noun
pastern (plural pasterns)
- The area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158:
- 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.
- 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 227:
- 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.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158:
- (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A patten.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
Translations
area on a horse's leg
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