Originally taken to be the average length of a stride

• Something to set or pick up
• Word hidden backwards in this puzzle's eight longest answers
• Going rate
• Walk like an expectant dad
• Gait
• Stand-up comic's concern
• University in New York City
• Wear out the carpet in the waiting room
• A slowpoke may be asked to pick it up

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pacé refers to two communes in France: Pacé, Ille-et-Vilaine Pacé, Orne