PAT

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.

A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.

A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter. Dickens.

Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. "Pat allusion." Barrow.

In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.