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The pasterns first become connected together by bone instead of ligament, and thence results what is called an anchylosed or fixed joint.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

Ock Gurney in a cloud of steam Stood by his dripping cob and wrung The taste of brook mud from his tongue And scraped his poor cob's pasterns clean.

From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John

His pasterns were supple as an Arab four-year-old's, his muscles steel springs.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher

Fonso is a dark chestnut colt, with a star and two white feet behind up over the pasterns.

From History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 by O'Connor, John Lawrence

The man was old and rather emaciated, but his muscles looked as hard as the pasterns of a springbok.

From By Veldt and Kopje by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)