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Patten   /pˈætən/   Listen
noun
Patten  n.  
1.
A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud. "The patten now supports each frugal dame."
2.
A stilt. (Prov. Eng.)






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"Patten" Quotes from Famous Books



... is able to use crutches, the affected limb is prevented from touching the ground by fixing a patten on the sole of the boot on the sound side. This may suffice, or, in addition, the hip-joint is kept rigid by a Thomas' (Fig. 118) or a Taylor's splint. The Thomas' splint must be fitted to the patient under the supervision of the surgeon, who must make himself familiar with the ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... now take and brandish Has long lain useless in my standish. Know, every maid, from her own patten, To her who shines in glossy sattin, That could they now prepare an oglio From best receipt of book in folio, Ever so fine, for all their puffing, I should prefer a butter'd muffin; A muffin Jove himself might feast on, If ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume II • Horace Walpole

... consideration, for we were tired and footsore. Who the gentleman was we did not discover; he knew Warrington and the neighbourhood, had visited Mr. Lyon of Appleton Hall near that town, and knew Mr. Patten of Bank Hall, who he said was fast getting "smoked out" of that neighbourhood. We retired early, and left him in full possession of the coffee-room and ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor

... West Point until December, when he was removed to Haverstraw by the orders of General McDOUGALL, and had the command of a brigade, consisting of Malcolm's regiment, and a portion of Spencer's and Patten's regiments. He was subsequently ordered to take command on the lines in Westchester county, a most important and not less perilous post. In December, he received from Mrs. J. Montgomery, the widow of General Montgomery, ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... Jackson was a terrible enemy, he was also the most faithful of friends. Many men feared and hated him; many also loved him, and he himself would go as far to help a friend as to crush an enemy. One of his friends was a certain Patten Anderson, who seems always to have been getting into trouble, but whom the general never deserted. Once Anderson got into a fight at one end of a long table where a public dinner was being served, and ...
— Andrew Jackson • William Garrott Brown


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