"pound a beat" meaning in English

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          "text": "Assigned to the riverfront precinct for years, he pounded a beat of backstreets and dockyards.",
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          "ref": "1948, Alfred Haines Cope, The administration of civil service in cities of the third class in Pennsylvania, page 65:",
          "text": "Flat feet may be important to the patrolman who must pound a beat, but in cities with patrol cars, should mild cases of flat feet disqualify?",
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        "To walk a regular route."
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        "(idiomatic, usually of a police officer) To walk a regular route."
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        "(idiomatic, usually of a journalist) To cover a regular beat, reporting on an assigned category of news."
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