platten
English
editEtymology
editSee plat (“flat”, adjective).
Verb
editplatten (third-person singular simple present plattens, present participle plattening, simple past and past participle plattened)
- (transitive, glassmaking) To flatten and make into sheets or plates.
- to platten cylinder glass
References
edit- “platten”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
German
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Adjective
editplatten
Luxembourgish
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editplatten
Middle English
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editEtymology
editFrom Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, to give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *platjaną (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *blod-, *bled- (“to strike, beat”). Cognate with Middle Dutch platten, pletten (“to strike, bruise, crush, rub”) (whence Dutch pletteren), German platzen (“to burst, split, break up, bounce”), Swedish plätta (“to tap, pat”). Compare Old English plætt (“slap, smack, a sounding blow”). See pat.
Verb
editplatten
- (transitive) to strike with the hand; to slap
- c. 1380, Piers Plowman (A):
- Peronelle Proude-herte platte hir to the erthe,
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1380, Piers Plowman (A):
Swedish
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