Patten

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.