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n. The part of a horse's foot between the fetlock and hoof.

n. An analogous part of the leg of a dog or other quadruped.

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

n. A shackle for horses while pasturing.

n. A patten.

n. The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of horse.

n. A shackle for horses while pasturing.

n. A patten.

n. The part of a horse's foot which corresponds to the extent of the pastern-bones. more particularly of the great pastern-bone, which occupies most of the extent between the fetlock-joint and the coronet of the hoof.

n. A shackle placed on a horse's pastern while pasturing; a hobble or hobbles; a clog; a tether.

n. That part of a dog's foot just above the toes, or the metacarpals and metatarsals. Anatomically this corresponds to the palm of the hand and solo of the foot in man, or to the cannon-bone in a horse.

n. the part between the fetlock and the hoof

"It is true that even the great Dr. Johnson defined the word pastern as 'the knee of an horse,' an anatomical inexactitude which would produce on an ostler the same kind of paralytic shock that a sailor might experience on finding in the same famous work leeward and windward described in identical terms as 'toward the wind.'"

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