'Footpad' definitions:
Definition of 'Footpad'
From: GCIDE
- Footpad \Foot"pad`\, n. A highwayman or robber on foot. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'footpad'
From: GCIDE
- pad \pad\ (p[a^]d), n. [D. pad. [root]21. See Path.]
- 1. A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. --Addison [1913 Webster]
- An abbot on an ambling pad. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. --Gay. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]