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From Old French pasturon (French pâturon), from pasture ‘shackle’ (from Latin pastoria ‘shackle for pastured animal's foot’) + diminutive suffix.



pastern (plural pasterns)

  1. The area on a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
    • 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158:
    • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 227:
  2. (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
  3. (obsolete) A patten.