beat
to be out at night, as in “to beat the paths/streets/roads till all hours of the night.” from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English (University of Toronto Press, 1982).
Many of these terms are from the 17th-century and were brought to Newfoundland with the settlers from England (the majority were from Wessex, mainly the counties of Dorset and Devon), and from Ireland (the majority were from a 30-mile radius of the city of Waterford). These terms survived here in Newfoundland after falling out of use in their original countries.
Submitted by: Marlene Creates
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