Patten vs Latten - What's the difference?
patten | latten |
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.
(archaic, or, historical) An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.
Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.
As nouns the difference between patten and latten
is that patten is any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs while latten is an alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.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 onomatopoeiaslatten
English
(wikipedia latten)Alternative forms
* latonNoun
- gold latten