different between paster vs pastern

English

Etymology

paste +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?st?(r)

Noun

paster (plural pasters)

1. One who, or that which, pastes.
2. A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.

Anagrams

• Pearts, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch past?or, from Latin p?stor. The West Flemish word has stress on the first syllable, like the Latin, but this is not clearly attested in Middle Dutch.

Noun

paster m (plural pasters)

1. priest

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