platten

Etymology

See plat (“flat”, adjective).

Verb

platten (third-person singular simple present plattens, present participle plattening, simple past and past participle plattened)

1. (transitive, glassmaking) To flatten and make into sheets or plates.

   to platten cylinder glass

References

• platten in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Adjective

platten

1. inflected form of platt

Adjective

platten

1. inflected form of platt

Alternative forms

• pletten

Etymology

From Old English plættan (“to buffet, strike, slap, smack, to give a sounding blow”), from Proto-Germanic *platjaną (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b(e)lad-, *b(e)led- (“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

platten

1. (transitive) to strike with the hand; to slap
   • c. 1380, Piers Plowman (A):

     Peronelle Proude-herte platte hir to the erthe,

Noun

platten

1. definite singular of platt