What does pastern mean?
Pastern means The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof..
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/ˈpæstən/ · noun
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.
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.
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.
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Pastern means The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof..
Common synonyms include fetter bone.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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