noun. Any one of various types of wooden-soled footwear, such as a sandal, shoe, or clog, worn to increase one's height or to keep one's feet out of the mud.

noun. An obsolete form of paten.

noun. In building: The base of a column or pillar.

noun. The sole for the foundation of a wall.

noun. The sill in a timber-framing. Also written patand, patin.

noun. A shoe with a thick wooden sole; a clog.

noun. A stilt.

To go on pattens.

noun. A skate.

noun. A round wooden plate fastened under the foot of a horse, to prevent it from sinking in marshy and soft ground.

noun. A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.

noun. A stilt.

noun. Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.

noun. A stilt.

noun. footwear usually with wooden soles

"If you aren’t exposed to a certain patten of speech (or thought, or dress), then how do you know to use it?"

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