A footpad is a robber or thief specializing in pedestrian victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [GoodShit] Reference

But at least there was one Border highwayman -- or is "footpad" here the more correct term?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

A footpad is a footpath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

That was like a DDR footpad setup in the stage right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo] Reference

'Which argues an expert footpad and thief,' said Hugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]

‘We’ve set a little puzzle for that footpad, anyhow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

The footpad may seem like a logical next step for Nintendo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaming the Scale] Reference

She would pity the poor footpad who decided to accost Mr. Downes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Christmas Bride]

"It is a falsehood," roared the footpad who had attacked our hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

He will make the footpad from replaceable treads from old car tires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prayers For An Elephant] Reference

The fact that he was stopped by a footpad smote Tom Swift's mind as not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference

And we know what to think of the footpad, — and what we must do to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

By the same token, a footpad might rob gentlemen, but seldom killed them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

Thus far, it has been impossible to put a Kinoki footpad on the squirrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

He had forgotten the cloaked man whom he had taken for an ordinary footpad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

'For one of those horses, I would cut throats like the worst footpad in Thebes.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

"Don't see why you need me, " Sharpe said, -if you've got a footpad on your side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Prey]

She recognized this one as the footpad she had taken a chunk out of with her dirk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender Rebel]

It produced, therefore, the urban mob, the footpad, the highwayman and the brigand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

Another tart, perhaps, or a footpad out to pinch what he didn't any longer possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ripping Time]

Or even by using a dance dance revolution footpad to tap-dance it out in Morse code.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vista's advanced speech recognition technology] Reference

Or if a footpad asks him for his money, what need he care provided he has an umbrella?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference

False-color mosaic also shows a spring to right of footpad, harmlessly lost during landing.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Phoenix Arises, Science could flow quickly | Universe Today] Reference

''Tis a footpad,' I thought, for he was velvet-footed, and I heard no tread on the pavement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Wherever his luck tonight had come from, he did not mean to lose all that gold to a footpad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragon Reborn]

I had hardly got beyond the walls, when a footpad struck me in the back with his bludgeon; down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birds] Reference

Whether this was a footpad or not, I will not pretend to say, but he had every appearance of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in England in 1782] Reference

"This is a werry lonely spot, sir," says Seymour's footpad; "I wonder you ain't afeard of being robbed!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

While this was going on the westerner and two of the new arrivals managed to make a prisoner of the other footpad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

When the footpad, for the fellow was nothing less, attacked Jerry, our hero felt that he had a tough struggle before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference

Tom was sorry that the fellow had now been forewarned that his identity as the spy and footpad was known to Tom and his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails] Reference

Brotherhood, on whose behalf they again demanded aid and assistance to effect the capture of this robber and footpad of the highways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Quixote] Reference

Every time, the elephant is taken out on forest work, the footpad suffers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference

Disease progression was monitored by weekly measurements of footpad swelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/22/2010] Reference

Infection was determined by measuring footpad swelling with a caliper at the times indicated.    From Wordnik.com.  [FreshPatents.com: Notable Patent Applications - 07/22/2010] Reference