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Archaic a robber or highwayman, on foot rather than horseback footpad [′fu̇t‚pad] (aerospace engineering) A somewhat flat base on the leg of a spacecraft to distribute weight and thereby minimize sinking into a surface. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | "I stood up the Chief of Police," said the First Footpad, "and I got away with what he had. The footpad hiding in a ditch had marked him passing like a ghost along its brink; the vagrant had met him on the dark high-road; the beggar had seen him pause upon the bridge to look down at the water, and then sweep on again; they who dealt in bodies with the surgeons could swear he slept in churchyards, and that they had beheld him glide away among the tombs on their approach. Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen, and nearer at hand the prowling shark, that villainous footpad of the seas, would come skulking along, and, at a wary distance, regard us with his evil eye. |
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