pad

1. (transitive) To stuff.transitive

2. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.transitive

3. (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.Examples: "The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends."; "pad one's expenses"; ""Obama pads delegate lead […] with win in key western state.""transitive

4. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.Examples: "to pad cloth"; "[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]"transitive

5. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.transitive

1. (British, dialectal) A toad.Britishdialectal

1. (British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.Examples: "And when the map shows that the creek will no longer take him where he wants to go, then he looks for an animal pad and follows it, getting down on his belly and wriggling under thorny bush when he has to."AustraliaBritishIrelanddialectal

2. (British, obsolete) A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.Examples: "A Pad came pacing down the way : / The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue , / Upon the passing trav'ler sprung"; "These free-born sounds proceeded from four pads / In ambush laid, who had perceived him loiter / Behind his carriage; and, like handy lads, / Had seized the lucky hour to reconnoitre"Britishobsolete

3. (British, obsolete) A tramp or itinerant musician.Britishobsolete

1. (British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.Britishdialectal

1. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).Examples: "Padding the streets for half a crown."transitive

2. (intransitive) To travel on foot.intransitive

3. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.Examples: "Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]"intransitive

4. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.Examples: "Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out..."intransitive

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.Examples: "Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there."intransitiveobsolete