patten
Any of various types of footwear with thick soles, often used to elevate the foot, especially wooden clogs.
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.
One of various wooden attachments used to lift a shoe above wet or muddy ground.
historical
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.
A circular wooden plank attached to a horse's foot to prevent it from sinking into a bog while plowing.
obsolete
At and in the neighbourhood of North Meoks, near Ormskirk in Lancashire, there is a whole country of peat, and how deep this soil is God only knows, for the horses which plough thereon wear pattens to keep them from sinking to the bellies: here I was not long ago deluded, by my ignorance of the country and a team in pattens, to attempt riding over ploughed ground to inquire my way.
An ice skate.
Where it comes from
From Middle English patyn, patin, pateyn, from Old French patin, from patte (“paw, hoof”), from Latin patta, of imitative origin.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry patten (CC BY-SA 4.0).