| Summary: | path n When my grandmother died two years ago she was 99 yrs. old. I remember several strange words that she used constantly. "pathbeaters" - pat beater - Whenever my sister or I went to a dance or used to be going out for a walk, particularly when we were about 14-16 years old, nanny would always call us "professional pathbeaters", meaning that we were always going somehwere. JH FEB 1972 DNE-cit Used I Used I 4 Not used 'beating the paths',path-road, path-beater,path-walloper,WOOD PATH,FUR PATH. TRAP LINE,BEATER 2,'lower pat-h' ~, 'upper pat-h.' [see 'path-wolloper', 'streetbeater', 'molliwollep'] 'beating the paths'
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