Definition of "pastern" in English

noun

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. (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

3. (obsolete) A patten.