Middle English Dictionary Entry
pastron n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pastron n. Also pastroun, pasturne. |
| Etymology | OF pasturon |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A fetter or shackle for the pastern of a horse; paire of pastrons; (b) the pastern of a horse.
Associated quotations
a
- (1284) *Acc.Exch.K.R.Bundle 97 No.3 [OD col.] : Pro vij paribus de Pastrons emptis pro eisdem [equis], xiiij d.
- (?c1343) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100543 : In..3 paribus de pastrons.
- (1345-9) Wardrobe Acc.Edw.III(1) in Archaeol.3182 : Et xx capistra de correo & xx pastrons de corio.
- (1347-8) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100545 : In 6 par. de Pastronnes novis empt. et aliis emend. pro equis Prioris, 13 d. ob.
- (1466-7) Acc.Howard in RC 57389 : Item, for iij payr of pastrons, iij s.
- (1469) Ordin.Househ.Clarence in PSAL (1790)97 : Item, That the maister of the horses..sue for..turnelles, pastrons, sursengles, garthes.
b
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)87/30 : A runde fot & þicke bi-comeþ an hors wel, & ȝif his pastron be schort, he is wel þe betere.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)1b : To abesse þe largesse of þe pastroun [vr. pasturne], do hem for to hete lowe vndir her fete.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)10b : An hors of good entayle shal haue..short pastrown and gret, ever þe gretter þe betir it is.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)12a : Folis þat ben folid in lowe cuntre and mori..shal haue..longe pastron of kynde; þat is nout to preisin.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)441 : So many slough the cristin that the horse wente in blode vp to the pastrouns [F fellons].
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11426 : Foure shorte þinges is no lak, Heed, eeris, pastrouns and bak.