patten

Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.

• I went and told part of the excise money till twelve o’clock, and then called on my wife and took her to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late.
• Tom Freckle, the smith's son, was the next victim to her rage. He was an ingenious workman, and made excellent pattens; nay, the very patten with which he was knocked down was his own workmanship.

One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.historical

• Pair of Woman's Pattens, c. 1700-80 A pair of woman's pattens, wooden soles riveted to wrought iron platforms with straps of brown leather lined with off-white wool.
• The servant, who wasn't able to reach the flying coach, picked the patten [translating chianiello] up from the ground and brought it to the king, telling him what had happened.

A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.obsolete

• Some trials have been made in Ireland to put pattens on bullocks instead of horses, for ploughing on bog.

An ice skate.UKdialectal

An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.historical

The base of a pillar.

To go about wearing pattens.intransitive

Obsolete form of paten.alt-ofobsolete