footpad

1. (medicine) A medicated bandage for the treatment of corns and warts.

2. (archaic) A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.Examples: "The fraudulent clerk and the flash "cracksman" interchanged experiences. The smuggler's stories of lucky ventures and successful runs were capped by the footpad’s reminiscences of foggy nights and stolen watches."; "Col. Isaac Trumbo, who made a fortune in Utah and lost it in San Francisco, died here to-day of injuries received last Saturday night, when he was beaten by footpads."; "He would lend it to get rid of Podson: the price of three weeks' food money extorted from him by a footpad."archaic

3. (Australia) An unmade, minor walking trail formed only by foot traffic.Examples: "Nemarluck, if wounded in the way described by the aborigines at Talc Head, will keep to the beaten footpad leading from Delissaville to the Finnis River, and in his weakened state, will not camp any night far from a waterhole or without a fire."; "The rough dray track that leads to the south-cast soon becomes a poorly defined footpad which follows the tortuous pattern of the main spur through to Mount Everard, and then away to east and south to the far corner of the forest."; "Ignore the minor foot pad to the left — it is a scrubby track leading to a climbers' site known as Geryon Campsite."Australia