footpad
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From foot + pad.
Compound parts: foot
pad
Inflected forms:
form: footpads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foot-pad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: foot pad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: footpads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: footpadding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: footpadded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: footpadded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: foot-pad
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: foot pad
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The soft underside of an animal's paw.
pos: noun
gloss: A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
pos: noun
gloss: A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
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.
He would lend it to get rid of Podson: the price of three weeks' food money extorted from him by a footpad.
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.
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.
“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."
gloss: An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: 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.
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.
Ignore the minor foot pad to the left — it is a scrubby track leading to a climbers' site known as Geryon Campsite.
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.
gloss: To rob travellers on the road.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: When Mr. Kaiser was footpadded last December, the scare seemed to penetrate even the quiet town of Berkeley.
Before that 'e footpadded round Covent Garden with a crew o' other masterless soldiers an' suchlike, calling 'imself "Captain Gun", as nasty a bill o' goods as ever slit your pocket or cut your throat,' Pope added, with loathing for the many thousands of defeated men who had limped home to live off the city streets which, by right and custom already belonged to established families of beggars and pickpockets, dog snatchers and cloak snitchers.
To his first investment, Jack adds the money stolen by footpadding, all of which comes to £94 (CJ, 77).
gloss: To sneak on foot.
pos: verb
examples: But the joke is on me, for they unmasked me by footpadding me to the alley and stealing my clothes and shoes.
My dreams are secret, footpadding through darkness for fear the day arrest them.
"And every little sneaky infidelity . . . every little back-alley footpadding to find some quickie with a hustler — where does that fit into the code?"
Derived words: footpaddery
footpadism
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