Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any one of various types of wooden-soled footwear, such as a sandal, shoe, or clog, worn to increase one's height or to keep one's feet out of the mud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
paten . - noun In building: The base of a column or pillar.
- noun The sole for the foundation of a wall.
- noun The sill in a timber-framing. Also written
patand , patin. - noun A shoe with a thick wooden sole; a clog.
- noun A stilt.
- To go on pattens.
- noun A skate.
- noun A round wooden plate fastened under the foot of a horse, to prevent it from sinking in marshy and soft ground.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
- noun Prov. Eng. A stilt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various types of
footwear with thick soles, often used toelevate thefoot , especially woodenclogs . - noun UK, dialect, obsolete A
stilt .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun footwear usually with wooden soles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you aren’t exposed to a certain patten of speech (or thought, or dress), then how do you know to use it?
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Same way with a certain kind of patten leather button shoe or something.
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For instance a patten with lots of green will be out of place in the dead gray woods of winter.
in your opinion what is the best camo out there? do you think scent lok really works? 2009
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For instance a patten with lots of green will be out of place in the dead gray woods of winter.
in your opinion what is the best camo out there? do you think scent lok really works? 2009
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Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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They are at a real disadvantage because if they don't agree to the price that the Canadian government is going to allow they are not allowed to sell their drug in the market and if they don't start selling in Canada within two years after they start selling in the US, the Canadian government can take away the company's patten on the drug and let another company produce and sell the drug in Canada.
Plenty to Like in Freedomnomics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was a wooden patten, once commonplace domestic equipment in most farmyards.
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Kate, Where can I find a patten for those nifty pencil holders?
Deja vu all over again katelnorth 2008
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There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep.
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Maybe because I have noticed a patten even here at EC --- it is Friday night and whatever slant needs to stay up all weekend in the 'important news', whether postings or polls, will have a finger on the scale to, er, mostly keep front and center the Clinton messages.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Now Bill Himself Goes After Obama Over Reagan Interview 2009
strev commented on the word patten
Comfort pending.
April 14, 2009