What is "footpad"

Usage examples of "footpad".

They found the probe hunkered in sharp shadows, footpads fused with the ice softened by retrofiring altitude thrusters.

Nowadays its hundred or so blocks were the bright and lively haunt of alcoholics, agnostics, artists, atheists, beggars, cutthroats, deserters, drug dealers, evangelists, footpads, gentry, heathens, informers, jays, knife grinders, lesbians, libertines, mollyboys, musicians, navvies, ostlers, physicians, queers, recruiters, reformers, sailors, socialists, trulls, users, vagabonds, watchmakers, xenophiles, and yuppies.

My patrols were ambushed, the beaters who were supposed to hold a boar we were hunting somehow failed, footpads attacked me outside a taverna.

The two of them pulled themselves from handhold to handhold across the curving surface of the Callisto lander, toward the embedded footpad.

She had heard no pistol shots but many footpads preferred the silence of the blade.

Amorion would have shut down with nightfall, leaving its winding, smelly streets to footpads and those few rich enough to hire link-bearers and bodyguards to hold them at bay.

I told myself it was likely that they were no more than common footpads, looking for easy prey.

Sure enough, two more footpads were just edging their heads around the corner for a peek.

He carried neither terces nor so much as a sharp stick to protect himself against footpads.

But when the three footpads burst through the thick growth of bushes that masked the entrance to the bandstand, the man was not anywhere in sight!

Originally its rich black soil had been covered by thick timber, an ideal hide-out for convicts escaping from the colony, a haunt for footpads preying on the occasional traveller heading south, and a camping ground for roving Aborigines who killed the convicts and the footpads as fair game.

Regis had the relatively menial task of walking patrol in the city with a seasoned veteran or two, keeping order in the streets, preventing brawls, discouraging sneak-thieves and footpads.

Whoever had decreed that disposal of Peter Clemence had put it clean out of consideration that his death could be the work of common footpads and thieves.

I cannot take up the trade of a footpad, though disbanded soldiers turned robbers are common enough in Spain.

They were dressed to the nines, all of them, and Lachley was leading them straight toward the East End, where gentlemen in fancy dress coats and ladies in silk evening gowns would stand out like beacon fires, inviting attack by footpads.