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As a noun pastern is

the area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.

wikidiffcom

Not English

Wikidiffcom has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

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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