patten

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To go about wearing pattens.

Origin

• From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte, from Latin patta, of imitative origin.
• Variant forms.