different between ratten vs patten

English

Etymology

From Provincial English ratten (“rat”), i.e. to do mischief like a rat.

Verb

ratten (third-person singular simple present rattens, present participle rattening, simple past and past participle rattened)

1. (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.
   • 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. Royal Commission on Trades Unions. G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1867. 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?

   • 1947, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, 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?

Anagrams

• Arnett, attern, natter, tarten, treant

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?n

Noun

ratten

1. Plural form of rat

Anagrams

• natter, tarten

Middle English

Verb

ratten

1. to tear apart
   • 1402, "The Reply of Friar Daw Topias":

     renden and ratyn

References

• “ratten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Noun

ratten

1. definite singular of ratt

Anagrams

• tanter, tentar

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