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Etymology edit

From Middle English patyner; equivalent to patten +‎ -er.

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pattener (plural patteners)

  1. (historical) pattenmaker
    • 1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: Supplement. Comprising the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries[1], page 531:
      The pattenmakers, it seems, used the same material: the king, therefore, steps in between the patteners and the fletchers []
    • 1882, John Hewitt, Old Yorkshire[2], volume 3, page 22:
      The pattenmakers or patteners still find occupation in Yorkshire.
    • 1997, Sarah Rees Jones, The Government of Medieval York: Essays in Commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter[3], →ISBN, page 151:
      But even though numbers of very small crafts, such as bookbinders, clockmakers, or patteners were not associated with pageants in the 1415 listing []

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