Postern vs Pastern - What's the difference?
postern | pastern |
A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance.
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*:And as they cam hurlyng vnder the Castel where as sir launcelot lay in wyndowe / & sawe how two knyghtes layd vpon syr Blyaunt with their swerdes // & so sir launcelot ran out at a posterne / and there he mett with the two kny?tes that chaced sir Blyaunt
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:He by a privy postern took his flight.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Out at the postern , by the abbey wall.
(label) By extension, a separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc.
A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
:(Mahan)
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:
*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.
(obsolete) A patten.
As nouns the difference between postern and pastern
is that postern is a back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance while pastern is the area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.As an adjective postern
is situated at the rear; posterior.postern
English
(wikipedia postern)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----pastern
English
(wikipedia pastern)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
- (Knight)
- (Dryden)