Patten vs Batten - What's the difference?
patten | batten |
Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
* 1660 , (Samuel Pepys), Diary , 24 Jan 1660:
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A stilt.
To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
To feed (on); to revel (in).
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
* Garth
* Emerson
To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
* Milton
To fertilize or enrich, as land.
A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
(nautical) A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
As nouns the difference between patten and batten
is that patten is any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs while batten is a thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.As a verb batten is
to become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding or batten can be to furnish with battens.patten
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- (Halliwell)
See also
* clog * chopine * geta * sabot * sandalAnagrams
* English onomatopoeiasbatten
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *.Verb
(en verb)- The brain had its own food on which it battened , and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.
- The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
- Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history
- ''Robber barons who battened on the poor
- battening our flocks
