platten

See plat (“flat”, adjective).

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

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

platten

1. inflected form of platt

platten

1. inflected form of platt

• pletten

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.

platten

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

     Peronelle Proude-herte platte hir to the erthe,

platten

1. definite singular of platt