Pat /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Patted; p. pr. & vb. n. Patting

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.

1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
2. A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.

   It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

1. Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.

1. In a pat manner.

   I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.

1. See Patté. (Her.)

1. A pie. See Patty.
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.]