Talk:patten

RFV discussion: March–April 2018
Rfv-sense: a stilt. A quotation from Halliwell was requested, but I can't see anything. Ƿidsiþ 08:04, 18 March 2018 (UTC)


 * I have not yet found anything that is unambiguously a stilt, but there are any number of different wooden items worn on the feet to elevate the wearer, not just the two described in the other definitions. I even found something worn by horses:
 * Kiwima (talk) 21:04, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * cited Kiwima (talk) 21:32, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Great quotes, but I'm afraid I disagree that any of them verify the sense under question. They all seem to belong to different senses. Ƿidsiþ 05:52, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Part of what we seem to be up against is what is meant by "stilt". At least one of the quotes you moved, on the same page as the quote, referred to the pattens as "short stilts". Perhaps it might be better to create a more general definition for definition number 2, as some of the quotes I found seem to refer to something similar but where the ring is not metal, and the "stilts" are again quite similar. Kiwima (talk) 10:15, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * In my reading, the reference to stilts that your search pulled up is clearly a jokey exaggeration – "they're so high they're practically stilts!". I'll keep looking though. Ƿidsiþ 13:54, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * In my reading, the reference to stilts that your search pulled up is clearly a jokey exaggeration – "they're so high they're practically stilts!". I'll keep looking though. Ƿidsiþ 13:54, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

RFV-resolved. The second definition was broadened to allow the stilt-like cases to be included, and the definition as a synonym for stilt was removed. Kiwima (talk) 23:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)