Patten

Quick meaning: Patten is a noun meaning Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.

Meaning

Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.

More Meanings

1. (now historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.
2. (now British dialectal) An ice skate.
3. The base of a pillar.
4. (intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.
5. Obsolete form of paten.
6. (obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.
7. (historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.

Example Sentences

Nobody had appeared belonging to the house except a person in pattens, who had been poking at the child from below with a broom; I don't know with what object, and I don't think she did.

Tom Freckle, the smith's son, was the next victim to her rage. He was an ingenious workman, and made excellent pattens; nay, the very patten with which he was knocked down was his own workmanship.

"I fear there is a chase; I think I hear three or four galloping together; I am sure I hear more horses than one." / "Pooh, pooh, it is the wench of the house that is clattering to the well in her pattens; [...]."

I went and told part of the excise money till twelve o’clock, and then called on my wife and took her to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late.

Word Forms

• pattens
• pattening
• pattened

Synonyms for patten

Depending on context, synonyms include clog, geta.

Antonyms for patten

Common opposites include unworldly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clog, geta, patin, pattern, commissioner, tuk.

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