Ratten vs Patten - What's the difference?
ratten | patten |
(obsolete, Northern England) To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union.
* 1947 , Ivor John Carnegie Brown,
* 1867 , Report Presented to the Trades Unions Commissioners by the Examiners Appointed to Inquire Into Acts of Intimidation, Outrage, Or Wrong Alleged to Have Been Promoted, Encouraged, Or Connived at by Trades Unions in the Town of Sheffield, Great Britain. . G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867.
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.
As an adjective ratten
is rotten.As a noun patten is
any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.ratten
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(en verb)Say The Word, p 100:
- ...derived from the sabot or shoe beneath railway lines. The saboteur was thus a remover of metal shoes, a train-wrecker. I must leave it at that. Meanwhile why not restore ratten to its old place in the Trade Union vocabulary, that is if, in these times of scant, we must endure any such wanton hindrance of the works?
p. 225:
- Did you also employ them to ratten people if they had broken any rules of your society, for instance, by having too many apprentices?
patten
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(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)
