pastern

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpæstən/|/ˈpæstɜːn/    美 /ˈpæstəɹn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A shackle for horses while pasturing. obsolete
  3. A patten. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

pasterns plural

词源

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.
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