Footpad
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Footpad is a noun meaning The soft underside of an animal's paw.
Meaning
The soft underside of an animal's paw.
More Meanings
- (medicine) A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
- (Australia) An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.
- To sneak on foot.
- (archaic) A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
- (archaic) To rob travellers on the road.
Example Sentences
He would lend it to get rid of Podson: the price of three weeks' food money extorted from him by a footpad.
“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."
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.
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.
Word Forms
- footpads
- foot-pad
- foot pad
- footpadding
- footpadded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foot pad, palm, pawstep, toepad, forepaw, mitten.
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