Dictionary

pastern en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpæstəɹn/ (US)
• /ˈpæstɜːn/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈpæstən/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English pastron, pastroun, pasturne, from Old French pasturon, diminutive of pasture (“shackle for a horse in pasture”), alteration of Late Latin pastōria after the suffix -ure.

Meanings

1. 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. 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158
   • 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. 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 227:
2. (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
3. (obsolete) A patten.
   • 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. 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (26)

de Fessel (area on a horse's leg) · sh puto (area on a horse's leg) · hu csüd (area on a horse's leg) · ca travador (area on a horse's leg) · eo pasterno (area on a horse's leg) · is hófhvarf (area on a horse's leg) · izh babka (area on a horse's leg) · ru ба́бка (area on a horse's leg) · de Köte (area on a horse's leg) · tr bukağılık (area on a horse's leg) · pl pęcina (area on a horse's leg) · nl koot (area on a horse's leg) · pt quartela (area on a horse's leg) · izh poohan (area on a horse's leg) · cy egwyd (area on a horse's leg) · fi vuohinen (area on a horse's leg) · ota بوقاغیلق (area on a horse's leg) · bg надкопитна става (area on a horse's leg) · cy meilwng (area on a horse's leg) · az bağancaq (area on a horse's leg) · es cuartilla (area on a horse's leg) · enm pastroun (area on a horse's leg) · mrw bakowaw (area on a horse's leg) · fr paturon (area on a horse's leg) · az buxovluq (area on a horse's leg) · ota بیلكچه (area on a horse's leg)