OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37939

pastern

/ˈpæstən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuartilla
The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
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 pas…
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