footpadding

The crime of robbing of travelers on the road; footpaddery.

Noun

  1. The crime of robbing of travelers on the road; footpaddery.
    • This footpadding is only done just for a bit of amusement, and because the colonel is out of the way. - 1847, George Payne Rainsford James, The King's Highway: A Novel, page 178:
    • 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. - 1907, San Francisco Daily Times - Volume 16, page 7:
    • It could just as easily have been a casual footpadding. - 1983, Ray Harrison, French Ordinary Murder, page 118:

Forms

footpaddings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of footpad