different between astern vs pastern

English

Etymology

From a- (“towards”) +? stern (“rear part of a vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??st?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??st??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Adverb

astern (comparative more astern, superlative most astern) (nautical)

1. Behind (a vessel); in the rear.
2. In the direction of the stern; backward (motion); to the rear.
3. (obsolete or rare) At or toward the rear of a vessel.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:astern.

Antonyms

• ahead

Derived terms

• astern of

Translations

Adjective

astern (not comparable) (nautical)

1. Behind a vessel; having a bearing of 180 degrees from ahead.

   If one ship is following another, the first is astern of the second.

Usage notes

• Within the ship, the corresponding adjective is abaft. An object nearer the stern than the mainmast is abaft the mainmast.

Translations

Anagrams

• Arents, Stearn, Terans, antres, arents, arnest, atrens, naters, santer, sterna, transe

English

Etymology

From Old French pasturon, diminutive of pasture (“shackle for a horse in pasture”), from Vulgar Latin past?ri?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæst?n/, /?pæst??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæst??n/

Noun

pastern (plural pasterns)

1. The part of 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:

     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.

   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 227:

     Below me, somewhere in the horse-lines, stood Cockbird, picketed to a peg in the ground by a rope which was already giving him a sore pastern.

2. (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) A patten.

   • 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Napster, Partens, arpents, entraps, panters, parents, persant, trepans