footpadding
English edit
Verb edit
footpadding
- present participle and gerund of footpad
Noun edit
footpadding (plural footpaddings)
- The crime of robbing of travelers on the road; footpaddery.
- 1847, George Payne Rainsford James, The King's Highway: A Novel, page 178:
- This footpadding is only done just for a bit of amusement, and because the colonel is out of the way.
- 1907, San Francisco Daily Times - Volume 16, page 7:
- The supervisors have been turned out of office, but now that they are not preoccupied with graft they may turn their attention to footpadding or second-story work.
- 1983, Ray Harrison, French Ordinary Murder, page 118:
- It could just as easily have been a casual footpadding.