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Paster vs Pastern - What's the difference?

paster | pastern |

As nouns the difference between paster and pastern

is that paster is one who, or that which, pastes while pastern is the area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.

paster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, pastes.
  • A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.

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    pastern

    English

    (wikipedia pastern)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 .
  • (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
    • (Knight)
  • (obsolete) A patten.
    • (Dryden)

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