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adv. [ An onomatopoetic reduplication of pat a light, quick blow. ] In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. “The fox's heart went pitapat.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain. “The pitapat of a pretty foot.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A kind of cloth prepared by the Polynesians from the inner bark of the paper mulberry; -- sometimes called also kapa. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖, n. } [ Also tapidero. ] [ Sp. tapadera lid, cover. ] One of the leather hoods which cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]