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Pat \Pat\, n.
1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a
tap.
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2. A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
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It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.
--Dickens.
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Pat \Pat\, a. [Cf. pat a light blow, D. te pas convenient, pat,
where pas is fr. F. passer to pass.]
Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. "Pat allusion."
--Barrow.
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Pat \Pat\, adv.
In a pat manner.
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I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.
--Sterne.
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Pat \Pat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Patted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Patting}.] [Cf. G. patschen, Prov. G. patzen, to strike,
tap.]
To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly;
to tap; as, to pat a dog.
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Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. --Pope.
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