clog, geta, patten, sabot
(noun) footwear usually with wooden soles
Source: WordNet® 3.1
patten (plural pattens)
Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs. [from 14th c.]
(now, historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground. [form 16th c.]
(obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing. [18th–19th c.]
(now, Britain dialectal) An ice skate. [from 17th c.]
(historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
The base of a pillar.
patten (third-person singular simple present pattens, present participle pattening, simple past and past participle pattened)
(intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.
Variant forms.
patten (plural pattens)
Obsolete form of paten.
• patent, pét-nat
Patten (plural Pattens)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Patten is the 3059th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 11730 individuals. Patten is most common among White (84.83%) individuals.
• patent, pét-nat
Source: Wiktionary
Pat"ten, n. Etym: [F. patin a high-heeled shoe, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. Panton, Patté.]
1. A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud. The patten now supports each frugal dame. Gay.
2. A stilt. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
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