patten

Meanings

1. Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
2. One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.
3. A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.
4. An ice skate.
5. An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
6. The base of a pillar.

1. To go about wearing pattens.

1. Obsolete form of paten.

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Georgia, United States.
3. A town, village, and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

Etymology

From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.