patten

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.

An obsolete form of paten.

In building: The base of a column or pillar.

The sole for the foundation of a wall.

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

A shoe with a thick wooden sole; a clog.

A stilt.

To go on pattens.

A skate.

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