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Etymology
From OF. pasturon (French pâturon), from pasture �shackle� (from L. pastoria �shackle for pastured animal's foot�) + diminutive suffix.
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA|/�pæst�n/, /�pæst��n/
(US) IPA|/�pæst�ɻn/
Noun
en-noun
- The area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
#*1918: 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. � Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 158)
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