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Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

11 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)

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the sloping part of a horse's foot

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He stroked my right hand, seeming to admire the softness and colour; but he squeezed it so hard between his hoof and his pastern, that I was forced to roar; after which they both touched me with all possible tenderness.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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The horse sank in up to the pasterns, and he drew each hoof with a sucking sound out of the half-thawed ground.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina