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Entry 8 senses · 6 variants Webster, 1913

Pat

/pǎt/ · IPA /pæt/
01 v. t. To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
imp. & p. p. Patted; p. pr. & vb. n. Patting
  1. 1.
    To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
    “Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite.” — Pope.
02 n. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
  1. 1.
    A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
  2. 2.
    A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
    “It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.” — Dickens.
03 a. Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
  1. 1.
    Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
04 adv. In a pat manner.
  1. 1.
    In a pat manner.
    “I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.” — Sterne.
05 a. See Patté.
  1. 1.
    See Patté.(Her.) See: Patté
06 n. A pie. See Patty.
  1. 1.
    A pie. See Patty. See: Patty
  2. 2.
    A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.(Fort.) [R.]