A highwayman operating on foot rather than riding a horse.
〈史〉徒步拦路强盗
Example sentencesExamples
High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen.
Lt-Col Lean said a patrol from the Fiji Company's Reconnaissance Platoon identified a small footpad leading from a road about 2km from the area of the corn theft on the afternoon of February 27.
It was unknown for footpads to be encountered on the lonely path, as no one would be likely to pass this way carrying anything of value to a thief.
I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads.
Definition of footpad in US English:
footpad
nounˈfo͝otpadˈfʊtpæd
historical
A highwayman operating on foot rather than riding a horse.
〈史〉徒步拦路强盗
Example sentencesExamples
Lt-Col Lean said a patrol from the Fiji Company's Reconnaissance Platoon identified a small footpad leading from a road about 2km from the area of the corn theft on the afternoon of February 27.
It was unknown for footpads to be encountered on the lonely path, as no one would be likely to pass this way carrying anything of value to a thief.
High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen.
I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads.