footpad

The soft underside of an animal's paw.

A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.

A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.

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.

An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.

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.

To rob travellers on the road.

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 sneak on foot.

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.