patten
IPA: pˈætʌn
noun
- Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
- (now historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.
- (obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.
- (now Britain dialectal) An ice skate.
- (historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
- The base of a pillar.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Thomas County, Georgia, United States.
- A town, village, and census-designated place therein, in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.
- Obsolete form of paten. [(Christianity) The plate used to hold the host during the Eucharist.]
verb
- (intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.
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Examples of "patten" in Sentences
- Patten was much further to the south.
- Patten primarily played at half back.
- Patten managed a legitimate part of China.
- There is a redirect from Patten to this article.
- Patten remains a prominent critic of the proposal.
- Patten is the home to the Intramural Sports program.
- He is also the uncle of Vincent Van Patten and Talia Balsam.
- Patten contested the seat of Higgins at the 2009 by election.
- Critic Fred Patten is one of the main supporters of the strip.
- Patten was named a justice of the peace for Granville township in 1763.
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