footpads in English

noun
1
a highwayman operating on foot rather than riding a horse.
Discharged soldiers often took to brigandage: in 1718 one formed a company of footpads which raided the roads between Paris and Caen.
noun
    padder

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1. The under surfaces of the feet are pale and the footpads are brown.

2. Autosensitized lymphocytes in 0.2 ml PBS into the right footpads of groups of four syngeneic rats

3. Thymus (T) lymphocytes Autosensitized in vitro were shown in previous studies to produce enlargement of draining popliteal lymph nodes upon injection into the footpads of syngeneic rats

4. Thymus (T) lymphocytes Autosensitized in vitro were shown in previous studies to produce enlargement of draining popliteal lymph nodes upon injection into the footpads of syngeneic rats

5. Historically, many Brigands were simply criminals who banded together to rob people and plunder settlements in order to acquire loot, and these types of criminals included "highwaymen" (horse-riding highway robbers) and "footpads" (muggers)