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Sat Mar 25 2000 at 6:01:54
In
Samuel Johnson
's dictionary of 1755, he defined pastern as the
knee
of a
horse
, while it is actually part of the
foot
. He claimed to have made this error out of "sheer ignorance."
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Samuel Johnson
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John Dryden
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William Shakespeare
knee
foot