Definition of "latten" [lat•ten]

• Brass or an alloy resembling brass, hammered thin and formerly used in the manufacture of church vessels. (noun)
• A thin sheet of metal, especially of tin. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "A pix of a much plainer description, but without its cover, of the metal called latten, was until recently preserved in the church of Enstone, Oxfordshire: the body of this was of a semi-globular form, supported on an angular stem, with a knob in the midst, and in appearance not unlike a chalice."
• "_Latin_ was a play upon the word "latten," which was the name of a metal resembling brass."
• ""latten"; and the same name was applied in Shakespeare's time to thin iron plate coated with tin, of which domestic utensils and implements were made."