footpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footpads
form: foot-pad
form: foot pad
Etymology: From foot + pad.
Senses: glosses: The soft underside of an animal's paw.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
examples: text: The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. The smuggler's stories of lucky ventures and successful runs were capped by the footpad’s reminiscences of foggy nights and stolen watches.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, “chapter V”, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
text: Col. Isaac Trumbo, who made a fortune in Utah and lost it in San Francisco, died here to-day of injuries received last Saturday night, when he was beaten by footpads.
ref: 1912, The New York Times:
text: He would lend it to get rid of Podson: the price of three weeks' food money extorted from him by a footpad.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 71:
text: Coach Leather. The pliant but resolute stuff our grandfathers utilised to keep out wind, weather and footpads on the Great North Road or the Gundagai Track, according to whether you are Third or Fourth G.A.
ref: 1954 October 11, “Advertising”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, N.S.W.: National Library of Australia, retrieved 28 Feb 2013, page 5:
text: It suddenly occurred to me this was my mother of about two hundred years ago in England, and that I was her footpad son, returning from gaol to haunt her honest labors in the hashery.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
text: “The thief-catcher always sought out the cutpurses and burglars and footpads in a town; he claimed they knew more of what was really going on then any official."
ref: 1993, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 16: An Unexpected Offer”, in The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time; 5), New York: Tor Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
examples: text: Nemarluck, if wounded in the way described by the aborigines at Talc Head, will keep to the beaten footpad leading from Delissaville to the Finnis River, and in his weakened state, will not camp any night far from a waterhole or without a fire.
ref: 1933 October 26, “Nemarluck badly wounded”, in Western Mail, Perth, W.A.: National Library of Australia, retrieved 23 Feb 2013, page 31:
text: The rough dray track that leads to the south-cast soon becomes a poorly defined footpad which follows the tortuous pattern of the main spur through to Mount Everard, and then away to east and south to the far corner of the forest.
ref: 1950 December 22, “Bush tracks for motorists”, in The Argus (The Argus Week-end Magazine), Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia, retrieved 23 Feb 2013, page 29:
text: Ignore the minor foot pad to the left — it is a scrubby track leading to a climbers' site known as Geryon Campsite.
ref: 2008, John Chapman with Monica Chapman, Overland Track, →ISBN, page 56:
text: This AAWT track varies from a four wheel drive track along the Barry Mountains to a foot pad across the snow grass plains of the high country from Hotham to Mt Bogong.
ref: 2010?, “Mt Hotham Bushwalking and Trails”, in Hotham, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2013:
glosses: An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.
Derived terms: footpaddery
footpadism