Pastern
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpæstən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pastern is a noun meaning The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
Meaning
The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
- (obsolete) A patten.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- pasterns
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coronet, pedicle, horn, pad-tree, heel, underleg.
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