patten
Plural: pattens
Noun
- A shoe with a thick wooden sole, often for walking in mud.
- footwear usually with wooden soles
- 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.
- Obsolete form of paten.
Verb
- To go about wearing pattens.
Examples
- He meticulously arranged his tiles as if putting on a patten, stepping carefully into the game.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.
Scrabble Score: 8
patten: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordpatten: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
patten: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
patten: valid Words With Friends Word