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Part just above a horse's hoof
Answer for the clue "Part just above a horse's hoof ", 7 letters:
pastern
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Word definitions for pastern in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof. 2 (context obsolete English) A shackle for horses while pasture. 3 (context obsolete English) A patten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., "shackle fixed on the foot of a horse or other beast," from Old French pasturon (Modern French paturon ), diminutive of pasture "shackle for a horse in pasture," from Vulgar Latin *pastoria , noun use of fem. of Latin pastorius "of herdsmen," ...
Usage examples of pastern.
Lord Pastern, three years after their marriage, became an adherent of a sect that practised baptism by total immersion.
Her nurse objected, was given notice by Lord Pastern and reinstated by his wife.
The door opened and Lord Pastern and Bagott came trippingly into the room.
Would she, like Lady Pastern, have decided that her uncle was eccentric to the point of derangement?
Lady Pastern had been presented with it by some Indian plenipotentiary on the occasion of her first marriage and had clung to it ever since.
From its contents, Lord Pastern, who was dextrous in such matters, had concocted manikins, fly-traps and tiny ships.
Lord Pastern, crimping the end of a cartridge from which he had extracted the bullet.
Perhaps, Lady Pastern, you will remember an uncle of mine who had, I think, some post at our embassy in Paris, many years ago.
Lady Pastern glanced at him with cold astonishment and advanced upon Manx.
Lady Pastern should not have mentioned Hendy as a possible check to Mr.
After a few minutes Lady Pastern engaged Edward in what Carlisle felt to be an extremely ominous conversation.
He merely turned his shoulder on Lady Pastern, leant so close to Carlisle that she could see the pores of his skin, looked into her eyes and, with rich insinuation, contradicted everything she said.
Lord Pastern was no refuge as he had sunk into a reverie from which he roused himself from time to time only to throw disjointed remarks at no one in particular, and to attack his food with a primitive gusto which dated from his Back-to-Nature period.
Lady Pastern made conversation with Carlisle until the door had closed behind him.
Lord Pastern, two brilliant patches of scarlet flaming over his cheekbones.