different between patten vs pastern

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pat(?)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæt(?)n/
• Homophone: paten

Noun

patten (plural pattens)

1. Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs. [from 14th c.]
   • 1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 24 Jan 1660:

     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.

   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:

     Nobody had appeared belonging to the house except a person in pattens, who had been poking at the child from below with a broom; I don't know with what object, and I don't think she did.

2. (now historical) One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground. [form 16th c.]
   • 1845, Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth:

     Mrs. Peerybingle, going out into the raw twilight, and clicking over the wet stones in a pair of pattens that worked innumerable rough impressions of the first proposition in Euclid all about the yard—Mrs. Peerybingle filled the kettle at the water-butt.

   • 2007, Nancy L. Canepa, translating Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales, Penguin 2007, p. 60:

     The servant, who wasn't able to reach the flying coach, picked the patten [transl. chianiello] up from the ground and brought it to the king, telling him what had happened.

3. (obsolete) A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing. [18th–19th c.]
4. (now Britain dialectal) An ice skate. [from 17th c.]
5. (historical) An iron hoop attached to a person's boot in cases of hip-joint disease.
6. The base of a pillar.

Derived terms

• pattener
• pattenmaker

Translations

See also

• clog
• chopine
• geta
• sabot
• sandal

Verb

patten (third-person singular simple present pattens, present participle pattening, simple past and past participle pattened)

1. (intransitive) To go about wearing pattens.

Etymology 2

Variant forms.

Noun

patten (plural pattens)

1. Obsolete form of paten.

Anagrams

• patent, pét-nat

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

patten m

1. definite singular of patte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• patta

Noun

patten

1. definite masculine singular of patte

Swedish

Noun

patten

1. definite singular of patte

Anagrams

• patent

English

Etymology

From Old French pasturon, diminutive of pasture (“shackle for a horse in pasture”), from Vulgar Latin past?ri?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæst?n/, /?pæst??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæst??n/

Noun

pastern (plural pasterns)

1. The part of a horse's leg between the fetlock joint and the hoof.
   • 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998), page 158:

     It was quite impossible to ride over the deeply-ploughed field; the earth bore only where there was still a little ice, in the thawed furrows the horse's legs sank in above its pasterns.

   • 1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin 2013, p. 227:

     Below me, somewhere in the horse-lines, stood Cockbird, picketed to a peg in the ground by a rope which was already giving him a sore pastern.

2. (obsolete) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) A patten.

   • Upright he walks, on pasterns firm and straight;
     His motions easy; prancing in his gait

     So straight she walk'd, and on her pasterns high.

Translations

Anagrams

• Napster, Partens, arpents, entraps, panters, parents, persant, trepans