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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thief who preys on pedestrians.
  2. n. A plate or similar structure on the leg of a spacecraft that distributes weight and helps prevent sinking after landing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A highwayman who robs on foot; specifically, one of a large class, existing in Europe when police authority was still in an ineffective condition, who made a business of robbing people passing on horseback or in carriages.
  2. n. A pad fitted over the sole of a horse's foot to prevent balling in snow.
  3. n. An anklet of leather strapped on a horse's foot to prevent interfering; a boot.
  4. n. In entomology, a cushion-like expansion on the lower surface of the tarsal joints: applied especially to the onychium, or membranous cushion between the tarsal claws. Also called foot-cushion and pulvillus. See cut under flesh-fly.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The soft underside of an animal's paw.
  2. n. medicine A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
  3. n. archaic A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
  4. n. Australia (also "foot pad") An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A highwayman or robber on foot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a highwayman who robs on foot

Etymologies

  1. foot + obsolete pad, highwayman (probably from Middle Dutch pad, path; see pent- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. highjacker
  1. hijacker
  1. highwayman
  1. road agent

same context (25)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. pillager
  2. ravager
  3. clôture
  4. picaroon
  5. forager
  1. cracksman
  2. freebooter
  3. horse-thief
  4. bullyboys
  5. talking-to
  1. highwayman
  2. banditti
  3. trenchermen
  4. pilferer
  5. ronin
  1. shedder
  2. black-face
  3. trencher-man
  4. blunderbuss
  5. spluttering
  1. buccaneer
  2. ill-adjusted
  3. old-man
  4. tongue-lashing
  5. eavesdropper

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. pad
  1. padder
  1. whyo
  1. scourer
  1. robber
  1. pad-foot

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  • bilby "The fact that he was stopped by a footpad smote Tom Swift's mind as not a particularly surprising adventure. He had heard that several of that gentry had been plying their trade about the outskirts of the town."
    - Victor Appleton, 'Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive'. Aug 27, 2009

  • seanahan I always thought this word comes from the fact that a footpad is capable of moving softly on his feet, to sneak up on his victim. Feb 2, 2007

  • reesetee a highwayman who robs on foot Feb 2, 2007

  • brandelion an excellent word, andrew.simone. thank you. :) Dec 9, 2006

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