different between pasters vs pastern

English

pasters

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

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.
(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.

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