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postern
English
Etymology
From Old French posterne, alteration of posterle, from Late Latin posterula (“back door”), from Latin posterus (“later”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?p?st(?)n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?st?n/
Noun
postern (plural posterns)
- A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance.
- (archaic) By extension, a separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc.
- (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
- 1850, Dennis Hart Mahan, Summary of the Course of Permanent Fortification and of the Attack and Defence of Permanent Works
- The postern of the enceinte leads through the middle of the curtain, descending from the plane of sight to the ditch
- 1850, Dennis Hart Mahan, Summary of the Course of Permanent Fortification and of the Attack and Defence of Permanent Works
Translations
Adjective
postern (comparative more postern, superlative most postern)
- Situated at the rear; posterior.
Translations
Anagrams
- Preston, pronest, reptons
Swedish
Noun
postern
- definite singular of poster
Anagrams
- portens, prosten, sporten, torpens
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pastern
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)
- 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.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158:
- (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (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.
- Upright he walks, on pasterns firm and straight;
Translations
Anagrams
- Napster, Partens, arpents, entraps, panters, parents, persant, trepans
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