Pat"ten*ed (?), a. Wearing pattens. "Some pattened girl." Jane Austen.
Pat"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pattered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pattering.] [Freq. of pat to strike gently.] 1. To strike with a quick
succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail;
pattering feet.
The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
Thomson.
2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. [In this
sense, and in the following, perh. from paternoster.]