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Found 4 definitions

1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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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2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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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3.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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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4.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   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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