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pastern Definition


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pastern
noun
    1. The part of a horse's foot between the hoof and the fetlock.
Etymology: 16c in this sense; 14c meaning ‘a shackle or tether used when putting horses out to feed': from French pasturon, from pasture pasture or tether.



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