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foot pad

foot pad is the alternative form of footpad.

Meaning of footpad

Noun

footpad (plural footpads)

  1. The soft underside of an animal's paw.
  2. A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.
  3. (archaic) 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.1874, Marcus Clarke, “chapter V”, in For the Term of His Natural Life
  4. (Australia) 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.1933 October 26, “Nemarluck badly wounded”, in Western Mail, Perth, W.A.: National Library of Australia, retrieved 23 Feb 2013, page 31

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Forms of foot pad

pluralfoot pads

Questions about foot pad

What is foot pad the alternative form of?
Foot pad is the alternative form of footpad.

Words near foot pad in the dictionary

  1. foot mantle
  2. foot mantles
  3. foot measure
  4. foot pace
  5. foot paces
  6. foot pad
  7. foot pads
  8. foot passenger
  9. foot passengers
  10. foot patrol
  11. foot patrols

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