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footpad

[ foo t-pad ]

/ ˈfʊtˌpæd /

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noun

a highwayman or robber who goes on foot.

verb (used without object), foot·pad·ded, foot·pad·ding.

to proceed stealthily on foot.

Origin of footpad

First recorded in 1675–85; foot + pad²

Words nearby footpad

footman, footmark, footmen's gallery, footnote, footpace, footpad, footpath, footplate, footprint, footprints on the sands of time, footrace

Example sentences from the Web for footpad

What if a footpad started sinking into the moondust, or the Eagle sprung a leak?

Man on the Moon |The Daily Beast |July 19, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
And we know what we think of the footpad,—and what we do to him.

The Duke's Children |Anthony Trollope
Quantitative experiments on wounds of the footpad of dogs showed that cotarnin invariably increased the bleeding.

The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2 |Various
I was assaulted by a footpad near Abrantes, as if I was worth robbing.

The Snare |Rafael Sabatini

A sailor coming across Blackheath one evening, was stopped by a footpad, who demanded his money, when a scuffle ensued.

Joe Miller's Jests, With Copious Additions |Various
I found he always carried them about with him: and then I thought there was no way for it but to hire a footpad to rob him.

Dust |Julian Hawthorne

British Dictionary definitions for footpad

footpad

/ (ˈfʊtˌpæd) /

noun

archaic a robber or highwayman, on foot rather than horseback