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▪ I. pad, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|pæd| Forms: 2, 5 pade, 3 pode, 5–7 padd(e, 6 pod; 5– pad. [Late OE. pade or ? pad, akin to ON. padda wk. fem. (Sw. padda, Dan. padde) = OFris. and MDu. padde, Du. pad, padde, MLG. padde, pedde, LG. pad, mod.Fris. dial. padde, podde, podd, pod, all in sense ‘toad’. Cf. LG. or Du. schildpad tortoise, Ger. schildpatt tortoise-shell. Hence the diminutive paddock, frog. Relations outside Teutonic unknown.] 1. † A toad (obs.); but in mod. dialects, the same as paddock, a frog.
1154O.E. Chron. an. 1137 Hi dyden heo in quarterne þar nadres & snakes & pades wæron inne & drapen heo swa. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2977 Polheuedes, & froskes, & podes spile Bond harde egipte folc in sile. c1420Anturs of Arth. 115 On þe chef of þe cholle A pade [MS. Thornton tade, MS. Ingilby padok] pikes one þe polle. c1425Wyntoun Cron. i. xv. 1346 As ask or eddyre, tade or pade. a1450Cov. Myst. xvii. (Shaks. Soc.) 164, I xal prune that paddok and prevyn hym as a pad. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xiii. (Frog & Mouse) xiv, The fals ingyne of this foull carpand pad [rime bad]. 1570Levins Manip. 7/33 A Padde, tode, bufo. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 431 That this worme..some wonders may wirk; And, through the poyson of this pod, our pratiques prevaile. 1876Whitby Gloss., Pads,..frogs. 1876Mid. Yorks. Gloss., Pad,..a frog. fig.1593Harvey New Let. Wks. (Grosart) I. 291 The abiectest vermin, the Vilest padd, that creepeth on the earth. 2. A star-fish.
1613Howard of Naworth Househ. Bks. (Surtees) 28 Mr. Sennoye's man bringing sea pads [note, the star-fish] and wilkes. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 283 Seepadde. Stella marina. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. v. iii, Sea-hedgehog, madrepore, sea-ruff, or pad. †3. a pad in the straw, a lurking or hidden danger.
1530Palsgr. 595/1 Though they make never so fayre a face, yet there is a padde in the strawe. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 136 Syr William Drury, (smelling out a pad in the straw). 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 63, I haue..poynted to the strawe where the padd lurkes, that euery man at a glimse might descry the beaste. 1590Nashe Pasquil's Apol. i. C ij b. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. ii. viii. §3 Latet anguis in herbâ, there is a pad in the straw, and invisible mischief lurking therein. 1652Peyton Catastr. Ho. Stuarts (1731) 22 Altho' there lay a Pad in the straw. 4. Comb. † pad-pipe = paddock-pipe; † pad-stool = paddock-stool: see paddock n.1 3.
c1450Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 24/1 Boletus,..angl. tadestol [v.r. paddestol]. Ibid. 37/5 Cauda Pulli crescit in aquis. angl. padpipe. 1570Levins Manip. 161/16 A Pad⁓stoole, tuber. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 384 A kind of Mushrom, or Padstoole. ▪ II. pad, n.2|pæd| Also 7 padde, (Sc. 8 pead, 9 paid). [A word orig. of vagabonds' cant, introduced like other words of the class in 16th c.: cf. crank n.3; a. Du. or LG. pad = OHG. pfad, cognate with Eng. path, q.v.] 1. a. A path, track; the road, the way. Orig. slang, now also dial.
1567Harman Caveat 84 The hygh pad, the hygh waye. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle Wks. 1873 III. 216, I am..a maunderer vpon the pad. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. ii. v, A Rogue, A very Canter, I Sir, one that maunds Vpon the Pad. 1666Bunyan Grace Ab. 12, I must say to the puddles that were in the horse pads, Be dry. 1768Ross Helenore 21 For her gueed luck a wie bit aff the pead [ed. 1812 paid], Grew there a tree wi' branches thick an' bred. 1790W. Marshall Midl. Counties Gloss. (E.D.S.), Pad,..path. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 109 Slip ower Owse an' go by trods an' pads. 1898J. A. Barry S. Brown's Bunyip, etc. 21 Striking a well-beaten pad, he followed it. fig.1647H. More Song of Soul i. ii. cxxxii, The equall pad Of justice now, alas! is seldome trad. b. Austral. spec. A track made by bullocks, cattle, camels, etc. Cf. cattle-pad s.v. cattle 9.
1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxiii. 207 The white track was the pad made by the feet of many camels. 1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia ii. 20 The pad was winding and rocky and scarcely discernible. One sometimes wondered if it really was a pad, so little did it look like one. 1941I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang ix. 67 You'll see the pad leanin' back to the horse paddock. 1954B. Miles Stars my Blanket xix. 138 In places we were able to follow a wandering bullock-pad. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 19 We almost wore a series of pads through the bush trailing it. 1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 37 They strode down the cattle pad at a fast walk. 2. a. Phr. on the pad, on the road, on the tramp; to stand pad, to beg by the way; gentleman, knight, squire of the pad, a highwayman. b. Robbery on the highway. slang.
1664G. Etherege Comical Revenge i. iii, I have laid the dangerous Pad now quite aside. 1699R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. 43 A troop of lusty Rogues upon the Pad. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 105 Some⁓times they are Squires of the Pad, and..borrow a little Money upon the King's High-Way. 1706–7Farquhar Beaux' Strat. ii. ii, D'ye know of any other Gentlemen o' the Pad on this Road? 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 246 He subsists now by ‘sitting pad’ about the suburban pavements. Ibid. 416 Her husband was on the pad in the country, as London was too hot to hold him. Ibid. III. 24 Beggars..who ‘stand pad with a fakement’ [remain stationary, holding a written placard]. †3. A highway robber; a highwayman. Cf. footpad. Obs.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 88 The High-Pad, or Knight of the Road. 1695Congreve Love for L. i. iv. 16 Two suspicious Fellows like lawful Pads, that would knock a Man down with Pocket Tipstaves. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, High Pad, a High-way Robber well Mounted and Armed. Ibid., Water-Pad, one that Robbs Ships in the Thames. 1716C'tess Cowper Diary (1864) 100 Mr. Mickelwaite was set upon by nine Footpads... His Servants and he fired at them again, and the Pads did the same. 1823Byron Juan xi. xi, Four pads, In ambush laid, who had perceived him loiter Behind his carriage. 1834H. Ainsworth Rookwood iii. v, High Pads and Low Pads. 4. A road-horse, an easy-paced horse, a pad-nag.
1617Moryson Itin. ii. 47 He delighted in study, in gardens,..in riding on a pad to take the aire. 1690in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. vii. 272, 60 sumpter horses, 6 war-horses, and 16 padds. 1703Sir J. Clerk Mem. (1895) 46, I was mounted on a fine gray pad belonging to the Duke of Queensberry. 1708[see pacer 2]. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lviii. (1869) III. 434 He quietly rode a pad or palfrey of a more easy pace. 1832Tennyson Lady of Shalott ii. iii, An abbot on an ambling pad. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xiv. 46 The very neatest lady's pad I ever set eyes on! 5. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) pad-horse, pad-mare, pad-ram (humorous after pad-horse), † pad-thief; (sense 4) pad-boy, pad-groom; also pad-clinking, pad-like adjs.
1633B. Jonson Tale Tub iv. iii, Oh for a pad-horse, pack⁓horse, or a post-horse, To bear me on his neck, his back, or his croup. 1690Shadwell Am. Bigot ii, De Pad-thief of the road. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4478/8 Stoln or Stray'd.., a Padlike Mare light coloured in the Face. 1714Addison Spect. No. 623 ⁋5 Finding it an easy Pad-Ram..she purchased it of the Steward. 1725T. Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 81 A little pad mare. 1826Sporting Mag. XVII. 378 These, with the squire's pad⁓groom..made a respectable appearance. 1865H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons xix, My bonny, pad-clinking [note Alluding to the clinking of their spurs]..bucks, Good day. 1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports §1074 The pad groom is employed in the hack stable and to follow his master. ▪ III. pad, n.3|pæd| Also 6–7 padde, 7–8 padd. [Known from middle of 16th c.; origin obscure. It is not certain that all the senses here placed have a common origin: 8 and 9 esp. seem to have little connexion with branch I. The only senses appearing to have relationship outside Eng. are 6 and 7, with which cf. 16th c. Flem. (now obs.) ‘pad, patte (vetus) palma pedis, planta pedis’ (Kilian) i.e. sole of the foot, and LG. pad ‘sole of the foot’ Bremisches Wbch. 1767; but the history of the continental word is also unknown, it did not mean ‘cushion’, and it could not possibly be the starting-point of the Eng. senses.] I. †1. a. A bundle of straw or the like to lie on.
1554Bp. Hooper in Fox's A. & M. (1631) III. xi. 150/1 Hauing nothing appointed to me for my bed, but a little pad of straw, and a rotten couering. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep., Elenor Cobham to Dk. Humphry Poems (1605) 52 b, Glad heere to kennell in a pad of straw. 1641Brome Jovial Crew iii. Wks. 1873 III. 394, I left 'em..sitting on their Pads of straw, helping to dress each others heads. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. iii, They lay..upon Goat-skins, laid thick upon such Couches and Pads, as they made for themselves. b. A bed; hence, a lodging, a place to sleep; one's residence. Also, a room frequented by narcotic (esp. marijuana) users. (slang, orig. U.S.).
1718C. Hitching Regulator 19 The names of the Flash Words now in vogue amongst Thieves... The Padd, alias Bed [etc.]. 1846Swell's Night Guide 67 The only question she asks is, ‘vot pad do you vont?’ 1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 64 Pad.., a bed; a place to sleep. 1938New Yorker 12 Mar. 36/3 Pads where semi⁓conscious smokers are robbed of their money are creeper joints. 1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) ix. 79 ‘If Ordiz is a junkie, what's he doing on Whore Street?’ ‘He's blind in some broad's pad.’ 1959[see beatnik s.v. beat generation]. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 346, I went with my wife and my friend..to a cold-water pad, south of the village. 1961Spectator 25 Aug. 266 In this half world of cats, pads and hipsters there is a residual morality. 1965‘Malcolm X’ Autobiogr. 57 Cats' pads, where with the lights and the juke down mellow, everybody blew gage and juiced back and jumped. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iv. 1/3 ‘Four out of five times when we go into a pad where we have been told there is pot, we find it’, says the detective. 1967N. Lucas C.I.D. x. 134 A ‘pad’ is a bed—in a flat, a house, a bed-sitter or even in a shack. 1973‘D. Shannon’ No Holiday for Crime (1974) vi. 89 She's got a pad over on Nadeau Street. 1974K. Millett Flying i. 26 The usual university ghetto pad, an old house gone hip. 1977Time 17 Jan. 8/3 They later searched the apartments of several employees, as well as Starckmann's swank pad in Neuilly. c. A padded cell: cf. padded ppl. a.2
1938S. Beckett Murphy 167 The padded cells, known to the wittier as the ‘quiet rooms’, ‘rubber rooms’ or, in a notable clip ‘pads’. 1964G. L. Cohen What's Wrong with Hospitals? vii. 147 The side-rooms are in fact ‘pads’ remaining from the pre-tranquillizer regime. 1965New Statesman 23 July 119/2 Quondam padded cells, now pink and chintzy, are given to old reliables who could leave hospital if they had anywhere to go. ‘Yes, we do keep two ‘pads’ for isolation purposes,’ barked the burly N.C.O. 2. a. A soft stuffed saddle without a tree, such as are used by country women or by equestrian performers, and by children in learning to ride; that placed on an elephant.
1570Levins Manip. 7/32 A Padde, saddle, penulatum. 1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 7 The horsemen..ryde upon paddes, or pillows without styrups. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 280. 1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. xiii. (1810) 624 A choise Irish horse with a rich pad, and furniture. 1639Shirley Ball v. i, The pads, or easy saddles, Which our physicians ride upon. 1792Wolcott (P. Pindar) Odes of Condol. Wks. 1792 III. 197 'Tis better riding on a pad, Than on a horse's back that's bare. 1813M. Graham Jrnl. India 75 On his [the elephant's] back an enormous pad is placed..upon this is placed the howda. 1875S. Sidney Bk. of Horse 303 The best saddle for commencing is a pad, without a tree. 1879F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 199, I was on a pad, as I found that I could shoot far better off it than out of a howdah. b. That part of double harness to which the girths are attached, used in place of the gig-saddle; sometimes, also, a cart-saddle.
1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 304 Arms and crests..will be introduced on the winkers, pads, nose-bands and breast⁓plates. 1875S. Sidney Bk. of Horse 489 The pad or saddle of a four wheeled carriage has no weight to sustain beyond the shafts. 1894G. Armatage Horse vi. 88. 3. a. Something soft, of the nature of a cushion, serving esp. to protect from or diminish jarring, friction, or pressure, to fill up hollows and to fill out or expand the outlines of the body, to raise a pattern in embroidery, etc.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Padds, worn by the Women to save their Sides from being Cut or Mark'd with the Strings of their Petty-coats. 1799tr. H. Meister's Lett. Eng. 224 Some ladies make use of artificial means to procure this kind of deformity of shape. This gives rise to pads and padded ladies, of which you have lately [1791] read so many aukward pleasantries. 1850J. F. South Househ. Surg. 151 Surgeons have a brass tourniquet with a bandage and a pad, the action of the pad being to press specially upon the artery. 1873Besant & Rice Little Girl ii. iii. 70 Her wealth of hair wanted no artificial pads to set it up and throw it off, as it lay,..upon her head. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 83/2 Patent Woollen Pads for laying under stair-carpets, landings, &c. b. A cushion or stuffing placed beneath a saddle or gig-tree, or any part of a horse's furniture or harness, to prevent galling, or under the foot to keep the sole moist; a cap of leather stuffed to protect a horse's knee.
1843Youatt Horse xxi. 428 In the better kind of stables a felt pad is frequently used... It keeps the foot cool and moist, and is very useful, when the sole has a tendency to become flat. 1894G. Armatage Horse 259, 263. c. In Cricket and other sports: A guard or protection for parts of the body, as the leg or shins.
1851Lillywhite Guide Cricketers 14 Pads..to guard the legs..must also be obtained. 1866Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 357 Pads and gloves are at the present day necessaries. 1878M. & F. Collins Vill. Comedy II. vi. 73 A cricket club..won eternal fame because the players insisted on wearing their pads on the wrong leg. 1882Daily Tel. 17 May, Watson was bowled off his pads. d. = padding vbl. n.2 2.
1860Thackeray Four Georges iv. (1876) 101 That outside, I am certain, is pad and tailor's work. e. A strip of rubber (etc.) material fitted in the road which when depressed by traffic operates road signals. Cf. detector-pad.
1933H. Watson Street Traffic Flow ix. 165 Electric contact pads or strips, called ‘detectors’ laid in the carriageway, and actuated by vehicles. 1935Times 3 Dec. 11/4 The installation of pedestrian control signals, to be operated by traffic pads. Ibid., The Hendon Council, however, did not consider that the provision of pad-operated pedestrian signals would serve the desired purpose on such a road. 1960H. Manzoni in E. Davies Roads vii. 176 The signals are actuated by vehicles passing over a detector pad consisting of two hollow rubber treads. f. = launching pad s.v. launching vbl. n. b.
1949Gloss. Guided Missile Terms (GM 51/8) (Res. & Devel. Board, U.S. Dept. Defense) 75 Pad, a permanent or semipermanent base constructed to support a missile-launching device. 1953Air Univ. Q. Rev. Fall 32 (caption) To withstand the pressures and intense heat of the exhaust blast during take-off, the 100-foot-square pad must be two-and-one-half feet thick. 1958Times 1 Mar. 6/3 The missile had been on its pad for days before firing. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 24 Mar. (1970) 101 Saturn I will be used to send an unmanned Apollo spacecraft into orbit—in fact, one is on the pad..now for launching later this spring. 1971Sci. Amer. Sept. 229/3 In 1961..the Russians had just 14 big liquid-fuel SS-6's on open pads. 1973Times 17 Oct. 1/4 Our Egyptian rockets..are now on their pads ready to be launched by the single order to press a button. g. A take-off or landing point for a helicopter.
1960Washington Post 1 Dec. D13/1 The mushrooming uses to which the 100-by-100 foot concrete helicopter ‘pad’ at the Pentagon is being put today. 1972L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag ix. 238 We were walking along the boardwalk past the helicopter pad. 1974BP Shield Internat. Oct. 18/2 With a slight bump and shudder, we landed on the helicopter pad. 1976‘L. Black’ Healthy Way to Die ii. 17 The circling helicopter was descending towards the pad. 1977Time 31 Jan. 15/1 On the drive from a helicopter pad to his office, his swift-moving convoy was guarded by three select commando battalions. h. = cow-pad (cow n.1 8).
1971New Scientist 1 July 36/2 The dung is also the incubation medium of many helminth parasites of stock, the eggs of which are passed in the pads. 1973Nature 30 Nov. 271/1 Such dung pads soon dry into a hard cake. 1974Sci. Amer. Apr. 101/2 On the average 12 dung pads are dropped by a single adult bovine every day. 1976Australasian Express 3 Sept. 2/1 Dung pads are being eaten at a rapid rate in the northern half of Australia. 4. A number of sheets of blotting-, writing-, or drawing-paper fastened together at the edge so as to form a firm block, from which the sheets may be removed one by one as used; called also blotting-pad, drawing-pad, or writing-pad.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. viii, A pen, and a box of wafers,..and a writing-pad. 1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 282 On the service of the Post Office Department... Every [telegraph] circuit is supplied with pads of these forms, and in order that the clerk who is about to receive a message may know what particular form to use, every message is indicated by a prefix, which is the first signal always sent. 1880Besant & Rice Seamy Side xx. 168 The massive pad of blotting-paper..reminded the boy of his uncle. 1888M. Robertson Lombard St. Myst. xv, This..sheet..had been torn off a blotting pad. II. 5. Any cushion-like part of the animal body. optic pad: see optic A. 2.
1878Bell tr. Gegenbaur's Comp. Anat. 117 The septa of the gastrovascular system..terminate as elongated bands or pads. 1881Mivart Cat 36 The adjacent surfaces of the bodies of the vertebra are nearly flat, and are connected together by the intervention of a fibrous pad. 1883H. Gray's Anat. (ed. 10) 492 Posteriorly, the corpus callosum forms a thick rounded fold, called the splenium or pad. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 690 In the mouth, the vesicles..occur most frequently on the inside of the lips, the pad of the upper jaw, and the tongue. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases i. 21 Prick the congested finger pad with a clean needle... Then gently with finger and thumb squeeze the finger pad. 6. The fleshy elastic cushion forming the sole of the foot, or part of it, in various quadrupeds, as feline and canine beasts, the camel, etc. Also, a fibrous cushion at the bottom of the tarsus in a bird's foot; also, one of the tarsal cushions of an insect, a pulvillus.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 61/2 The elastic pad placed beneath the foot of the dromedary. 1871Staveley Brit. Insects ii. 38 Feet of insects..of two claws with one, two, or three soft pads; but the pads are often wanting. 1874Heel-pad [see heel n.1 27 c]. 1881Mivart Cat 14 The skin of the fleshy pads beneath the paws. 1895Newton Dict. Birds 866 They are soon buried in the fibrous interarticular pad, and in the majority of birds ultimately vanish. 7. The foot or paw of a fox, hare, otter, wolf, or other beast of the chase; also the footprint of such.
1790Nairne Tales (1824) 99 (E.D.D.) His pads alternate play. 1859Jephson Brittany vi. 79 Nailed against a barn⁓door, I observed the ‘pads’ (pattes) or feet of a wolf. 1865R. S. Surtees Romford's Hounds 76 Off went the brush, head, and pads... ‘Brush is bespoke’... He then distributed the pads. 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. 27 Country housewives still use the hare's ‘pad’ for several domestic purposes. 1891Mrs. J. Gordon Eunice Anscombe 170 A smart little felt hat ornamented at one side with a silver⁓mounted otter-pad. 1901Wide World Mag. VI. 447/2 Not a trace of cart-rut, hoof-mark, or camel-pad could I discern. III. 8. Mech. The socket of a brace, in which the end of the bit is inserted; a tool-handle into which tools of different gauges, etc., can be fitted, as in a pad-saw.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 368/1 (Joiner's tool) Pad, is the square piece of Wood in which the Bit is fixed. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 94 You ought to be provided with Bitts of several sizes, fitted into so many Padds. 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 115 In the end of one of these limbs, which is called the pad, the piece of steel by which the boring is performed, is inserted. 1875Carpentry & Join. 22 It also goes by the name of the pad saw, on account of the handle in which it is inserted. This handle, or pad, after being turned, is bored quite through and is fitted with a long brass ferrule. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §319 The pads or patent tool-handles with tools contained within, and varying in number from 12 to 20, are very useful. 9. Watch- and Clock-making. A pallet.
1704W. Derham in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1789 It is necessary..that the Power..do at all times exert the very same force upon the Pads or Pallets. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 183 [The] Pad..[is] the pallet of the Anchor recoil escapement for clocks. 10. A package of yarn of a definite amount or weight. local.
1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 113 Tha tedst net carry whome thy Pad. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Pad, a small pack or bundle. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Pad..(By sellers of woollen yarn). The square-shaped package of yarn in which it is generally made up for sale, consisting of twelve bundles or hanks, and each bundle consisting of a great many skeins varying..according to the fineness of the yarn—a skein being always a fixed number of yards, and the pad a fixed weight. Ibid., (By spinners.) A bundle of yarn consisting of twenty-four small hanks, each consisting of four skeins, each skein measuring 360 yards; consequently a pad of yarn always represented the same number of yards, whatever its size or weight. 11. Shipbuilding. (See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Pad, or Pad-piece, in ship⁓ building, a piece of timber placed on the top of a beam at its middle part, in order to make up the round of the deck. 12. (More fully lily-pad.) A broad floating leaf (of the water-lily). U.S.
1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. (1883) 33 Pickerel lying under the lily-pads. 1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 46 The Indian canoe..stealing along sedgy lake shores, and through the lily pads of the long ponds. 1895Month Aug. 499 There are no lily pads about. 13. A trade term for a thick double-faced ribbon, used as a watch-guard, and in masonic decorations; also for an extra-thick ribbon used for stiffening the waists of women's dresses, etc. 14. A padding machine. Freq. attrib.
1935Textile World LXXXV. 1860/2 Formation of the patches is a danger signal, however, and—as is true of all danger signals in the pad dyehouse—should be taken heed of at once if serious trouble is to be avoided. 1951Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists LXVII. 508/1 In dyeing practice, the nearest approach to printing technique was the so-called pigment-padding process, where the vat dye was applied on the pad as a suspension of unreduced dye. 1955Ibid. LXXI. 896/1 Difficulties may arise from this increase [in width], e.g. from wrinkles passing the pad nip. Ibid. 900/1 Does the preferential uptake of water by the dry cloth entering the pad box cause a slight change in the concentration of direct dye and give a length of cloth off shade at the beginning of a run? 1961Cockett & Hilton Dyeing of Cellulosic Fibres xi. 358 The essential parts of a pad are a nip of two or more rollers, a trough, and means of applying pressure to the nip. 1966Encycl. Polymer Sci. & Technol. V. 238 The machine consists of two or three squeeze rolls mounted over a shallow trough, or ‘pad box’, provided with guide rolls for the cloth. 15. Electr. A resistance network inserted into a transmission line to attenuate all frequencies equally by a known amount.
1931Electronics Feb. 508/1 The term ‘pad’ as commonly employed in connection with audio frequency circuits, refers to an attenuation device used to reduce the power at a point in a circuit by some desired value... Regarded as an electric circuit, a pad consists of a one-section artificial line whose elements are pure resistances. 1951W. J. Creamer Communication Networks & Lines v. 46 Non-symmetrical pads may be employed for the purpose of matching impedances, but there will be a minimum loss below which it is not possible to go without getting into the difficulty of a negative resistance element. 1959K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 5) xxi. 22 The minimum attenuation setting of a ladder pad normally corresponds to its insertion loss, which amounts to approximately 2·5 db. 1967D. H. Hamsher Communication Syst. Engin. Handbk. vi. 31 Two-wire trunk circuits may contain a switchable 2-db pad. 16. U.S. slang. (See quots.)
1970Daily Tel. 27 Apr. 3 New York police have their own secret slang to deal with illegal business... A ‘pad’ is an establishment that provides police with regular pay⁓offs. 1971N.Y. Times 19 Oct. 47 The gamblers of the city paid off the policemen on a regular monthly basis after they had been placed on what is called ‘the pad’. 1971Guardian 28 Oct. 13/6 [He] was thrilled with becoming a plainclothesman because..‘he was now on the pad’. The pad is the regular sum paid to officers for ignoring illegal activities. 1971Times 1 Nov. 23 When a cop was transferred to a new post, the pad from his old station kept up for another two months. 1973M. Truman Harry S. Truman iii. 72 In Kansas City there was a tradition of carrying one or two thousand city employees ‘on the pad’ without requiring them to show up for work. IV. 17. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 3) pad-back, pad electrode, pad-foot; pad-like adj.; (2 b) pad-housings, pad-screw, pad-terret; (7) pad-mark, pad-scent; (8) pad-hole; pad-bracket (see quot.); pad-cloth, a housing-cloth extending over the horse's loins; pad-crimp press, a press on which damped leather is pressed into shape between convex and concave surfaces; pad-elephant, an elephant having on its back a pad only (not a howdah), on which to carry burdens, baggage, game killed in hunting, and the like; pad eye Engin. (see quot. 1909); pad-hook, a hook on the harness-pad (see sense 2 b) of a horse, for holding up the bearing-rein; pad mangle, a padding machine; pad money U.S. slang (see quots.); pad-piece: see sense 11; pad-plate, a metal plate on which a harness-pad is made; pad-play (Cricket), the use of the leg-pads to protect the wickets; hence pad-player; pad room U.S., in a theatre, a waiting-room for performers; pad-saddle, a treeless padded saddle; pad-saw: see sense 8; pad-side, a strip of leather attached to the harness-pad and to the girth; pad-steam, used attrib. and absol. to denote a process in which fabric is first padded and then steamed; pad stitch (see quot. 1968); also (with hyphen) as v.; so pad stitching; padstone (see quots.); pad-top, an ornamental leather piece finishing off a harness-pad at the top; pad-tree, a frame of wood or metal giving shape and rigidity to a harness-pad.
1897Daily News 9 Nov. 6/5 White and gilt Louis XVI standard chairs, seats and *pad backs in blue striped brocaded silk.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Pad bracket, a stable-wall bracket having a shape adapted to receive the saddle which rests thereon.
1870D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rur. Sports (ed. 3) §1087 The full set [of clothing for race-horses] comprises..breast-cloth, *pad-cloth, and fillet-cloth, with rollers to secure them.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 369 An accessory wire [may be] led from the foot-plate to a *pad electrode placed under the thigh.
1833Edin. Rev. LVII. 367 With twenty *pad-elephants to beat the covert. 1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 151 We found the pad elephants, forty-four in number; which, with the howdah⁓wallahs, gave us a line of four dozen.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., *Pad-eye, in ship-building, a flat rectangular piece of metal with an eye or ring projecting egdewise from its surface, the whole forming one solid piece. It is attached to the surface on which it is placed by screws or rivets through the flat part. 1972L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations vi. 76 The principal use of buoys in floating-drilling operations is to mark anchors... The unit should have strong padeyes on top and bottom for attaching handling lines and pendants. 1976Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 239/3 For added strength, cables are run from each corner of the frame to the existing pad eyes on the mass anchor.
1905F. S. Robinson Eng. Furnit. xii. 181 The legs of these tables are somewhat too straight to be classed as cabriole, and have *pad feet. 1955R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles 286 Pad foot, resembling the club foot but set on a disk. 1974Country Life 7 Mar. (Suppl.) 40 A fine quality George II red walnut Armchair in original condition having cabriole legs and pad feet.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 368/1 Bush or *Pad Hole, a four square hole in which the Bit is placed, so as it cannot turn.
1901Scribner's Mag. Apr. 413/2 To stand there and see those mincing cobs go by, their *pad-housings all a-glitter.
1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia IV. 216 (Manis) The hind-feet have five short, thick, blunt claws, edging a *pad-like sole covered with coarse granular skin. 1880Günther Fishes 330 The lateral teeth are large, pad-like.
1955Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists LXXI. 777/2 On leaving the *pad-mangle, the goods should pass directly into a Mather & Platt ager. 1966R. C. Cheetham Dyeing Fibre Blends i. 59 Piece⁓dyeing is usually carried out on a pad-mangle, with the least possible duration in the wet state.
1900Blackw. Mag. Mar. 393/2 Here again is the *pad-mark of a tiger. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars lxvi. 344 We..marched south..seeing tracks of gazelle..with, in one spot, stale padmarks of leopard. 1973Times 14 Aug. 14/5 Only pad marks of mink were found.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 256/2 *Pad money, money for lodgings. 1927Dialect Notes V. 457 Pad money.., money for a night's lodging or for admission into an opium den.
1920E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket 94 [They] used to bowl round the wicket in order to get batsmen l.b.w. with their off break, which, if bowled over the wicket, permitted ‘*pad play’. 1956N. Cardus Close of Play 15 Hobbs and Sutcliffe twice frustrated an Australian attack on ‘sticky’ pitches—on one of the most vicious of all, at Melbourne, largely by pad-play. 1960J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Australia 39 His reliance on so much pad-play had ruined his stroke-play.
1888Pall Mall G. 12 Apr. 5/2 Have you any intention of dealing with ‘*pad⁓players’?
1927K. Nicholson Barker 149 *Pad room, waiting room for performers. 1931Amer. Mercury Nov. 353/2 Pad room, a dressing tent.
1622Sir R. Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 60, I receaved from Thomas Taylor..a fair *padd saddle and ffurneture. 1877W. Matthews Ethnogr. Hidatsa 19 They..make neat pad-saddles of tanned elk-skin, stuffed with antelope-hair.
1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports i. ii. v. §8. 182 Some can pick out a cold ‘*pad scent’.
1945Textile World Jan. 84 (heading) *Pad-steam dyeing reaches volume production. 1961Cockett & Hilton Dyeing of Cellulosic Fibres xi. 361 The several forms of pad-steam..give greater production because of their continuous character. 1966Encycl. Polymer Sci. & Technol. V. 240 The Du Pont pad-steam process employs steam under controlled conditions to bring about dye fixation.
1924W. D. F. Vincent et al. Cutters' Pract. Guide Cutting & Making Body Coats 30/3 Whether or not you *pad-stitch the collar, or stitch together by machine, give it firmness as well as shape. 1964McCall's Sewing ix. 126/2 Pad stitch, this stitch is very similar to diagonal basting stitch. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 84 Pad-stitch, 1. In Tailoring: A diagonal basting stitch used to hold interlining or canvas to fabric. 2. In Embroidery: Filling stitches over which fancy stitches are worked; used to give bulk.
1964McCall's Sewing xiv. 254/1 End pad-stitching at seam line.
1963Gloss. Gen. Building Terms (B.S.I.) 19 *Padstone, a block of stone or concrete built into a wall to distribute the pressure from a concentrated load. 1964J. S. Scott Dict. Building 222 Padstone, a stone or concrete pad in a wall.
1894G. Armatage Horse vi. 89 The leaders of a..four-in-hand..their reins are passed..through the upper half of the *pad terret.
Senses 3 b–h in Dict. become 3 c–i. Add: [3.] b. A wad of material (such as cotton wool or gauze) placed over a wound, etc., as a dressing. Also, short for sanitary pad s.v. sanitary a. 3.
1807–26[see compress n. 1]. 1881[see sanitary towel s.v. sanitary a. 3]. 1917[see sanitary napkin s.v. sanitary a. 3]. 1962C. Rohan Delinquents 42 You'll need six Modess pads. 1984J. Phillips Machine Dreams 14, I kept a big bowl of gauze pads on the table. ▪ IV. pad, n.4 [A variant of ped, perhaps affected in form by prec.] An open pannier, usually of osiers; a measure of fish, fruit, etc., varying in quantity according to the commodity, a ‘basket’.
1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Nov. 16 A haske is a wicker pad, wherein they vse to cary fish. 1787W. Marshall Norfolk Gloss. (E.D.S.), Pads,..panniers. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 57 He may buy a pad of soles for 2s. 6d., and clear 5s. on them. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pad,..a fish measure, which varies in number—60 mackerel go to a pad. 1887Daily News 1 Dec. 2/8 Apples, 4s. to 9s. per pad. 1891Times 3 Oct. 13/3 Crabs, 20s. to 25s. per pad. ▪ V. pad, n.5 (adv.) [Partly echoic, partly associated with pad v.1] The dull firm non-resonant sound of steps, or of a staff, upon the ground; also the repeated step or footfall producing this sound. In earliest example used advb. pad, pad, = with repetition of this sound or action.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. (Grosart) V. 150 As in an earth-quake the ground should open, and a blind man come feeling pad pad ouer the open Gulph with his staffe. 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 125 'Tis the regular pad of the wolves in pursuit of the life in the sledge! 1890Kipling Plain Tales from Hills 123 There came from the compound the soft ‘pad-pad’ of camels. 1901Pilot 19 Jan. 76/1 The..soft pad of naked feet passing along the dusty road. ▪ VI. † pad, n.6 Obs. Shortened form of padlock.[In Rogers Agric. & Prices II. 519/1, 3, 520/4, of 1294, 1307, cited as Pad: in 520/4 of 1392 ‘2 pads & chains for horses’. But the original words are in no case given.] 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 38 Soles, fetters, and shackles, with horselock and pad. ▪ VII. pad, v.1|pæd| [Related to pad n.2: cf. LG. and E.Fris. padden = OHG. pfadôn, OE. pæððan, to tread, go along (a path). Also LG. (Bremisch. Wbch.) padjan to run with short steps: said of children; pedden to step, step often. But in some senses associated with the sound, like pad n.5] I. 1. a. trans. To tread, walk, or tramp along (a path, road, etc.) on foot.
1553Bradford Lett. Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 46 Other your brothers and sisters pad the same path. 1727Somerville Fables xiv. ii, Two Toasts with all their Trinkets gone, Padding the Streets for Half-a-Crown. 1882Glasgow News 17 May 4 Many an honest man..is forced to..‘pad the road’ in search of work. b. intr. To travel on foot, to walk; to tramp or trudge along, esp. as a vagrant or person seeking work. Also, to pad it.
1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all E iv b, Two Maunders..wooing in their natiue language. O Ben mort wilt thou pad with me. 1796M. Robinson Angelina II. 158 You can't be any great things, padding it at this time of the morning. 1824Scott St. Ronan's vi, [He] might have been made to pad on well enough. 1837Mrs. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. ii, Footsteps were heard padding along. 1883W. C. Smith North Country Folk 108 We padded, barefoot, to the school. c. to pad the hoof, to go on foot, tramp: cf. hoof n. 4. slang.
1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 225 Stout fellows to pad the hoof over them. 1860Thackeray Lovel i, Bearded individuals, padding the muddy hoof in the neighbouring Regent Street. 1894S. Weyman Man in Black 21 ‘If I knew, I should not be padding the hoof’, said he. 1904[see boot n.3 1 c]. 1916J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee x. 130 A dog with you breaks the lonesomeness of the bush, I know. We've padded the hoof together. 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 108 When the people..missed the coach, and had to pad the hoof into the town.., they'd take the short cut. 1970N.Z. Listener 21 Dec. 8/4 We pondered on the day years ago when we were padding the hoof ourselves. 2. intr. (with reference to the manner of walking). †a. Of a horse: To pace. b. Of other quadrupeds: To walk or run with steady dull-sounding steps. Also of a person, and reduplicated pad-pad.[In this sense partly echoic with reference to the sound.] a.1724Lond. Gaz. No. 6239/4 Stolen.., a..Mare,.. it Trots and Pads. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 41 This Sort..are soonest taught to pace or pad well. b.1871G. Macdonald Love's Ordeal xxiii, A hound, Padding with gentle paws upon the road. 1898G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 72 When my camel padded into their camp by moonlight. 1899C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle v. 84 Naked feet pad-padded quickly up over the dust and grass. 1926A. Bennett Lord Raingo i. ii. 7 A nice thing, that with five servants in the place, and him a millionaire, he should be reduced to padding about in his socks! 1966‘J. Hackston’ Father clears Out 84 Father was changing as we padded along. 1975M. Bradbury History Man vii. 126 Felicity pads at Howard's side down the long bright passage. 3. a. trans. To tread or beat down by frequent walking; to form (a path) by treading. dial.
1764Museum Rusticum III. xxi. 88 Whether the earth be in such a state of cohesion as to be padded under the horses feet. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIII. 242 The cottagers'..gardens..have been padded like sheep-folds. 1855Browning Childe Roland xxii, Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank Soil to a plash. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Snow is said to be well padded when a path has been trodden thereon. †b. fig. (?) To render callous, as if by treading. (But the sense is doubtful; cf. padded ppl. a.1)
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. iv. 194 As for them whom this heresie has so paded and benummed, that they thinke they are well enough. II. †4. intr. To rob on the highway; to be a footpad. Obs.
1638Ford Lady's Trial v. i, One Can..cant, and pick a pocket, Pad for a cloak, or hat, and, in the dark, Pistol a straggler for a quarter-ducat. 1680Vind. Conforming Clergy (ed. 2) 38 What should they do then? but..go a padding upon the High-way. 1730–6Bailey (folio), To Pad,..also to rob on the road on foot. ▪ VIII. pad, v.2 [f. pad n.3 in various senses. Recent; not in J., Todd 1818, nor Webster 1828.] I. 1. a. trans. To stuff, fill out, or otherwise furnish (anything) with a pad or padding; to stuff (something) in or about, so as to serve as a pad.
1827Lytton Pelham xliv, But, sir, we must be padded; we are much too thin; all the gentlemen in the Life Guards are padded, sir. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. II. 105 What falsehoods will not men put on, if they can only pad them with a little piety! 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxviii. 373 Dry grass was padded round their feet. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xxi. 532 The saddle-tree must have been padded in the house. 1885H. O. Forbes Nat. Wand. E. Archip. 158 Lichens and mosses padded every stone. b. absol. or intr.; also for refl.
1821Byron Juan v. cxl, Eastern stays are little made to pad, So that a poniard pierces if 't is stuck hard. 1873Besant & Rice Little Girl ii. v. 80 Fellows said he padded. 2. trans. a. To fill out or expand (a sentence, story, etc.) by the insertion of unnecessary or useless words or matter: see padding vbl. n.2 2 b.
1831Macaulay Ess., Boswell's Johnson (1887) 195 His [Johnson's] constant practice of padding out a sentence with useless epithets, till it became as stiff as the bust of an exquisite. 1870Eng. Mech. 4 Mar. 600/3 The rest of the almanac is..not padded with matter from the pages of other journals. 1891Spectator 12 Dec. 855 Conversations and descriptions with which the rather thin story is padded out. b. To extend or increase (an official list, expense account, claim for payment, etc.) with unauthorized or fraudulent items.
1913Maclean's Mag. Mar. 104 (heading) Padding the expense account. Ibid. 105/2 To pad this account by magnifying the cost of hotel accommodation, meals and railway fare, was most distasteful to him. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Oct. 1/2 John W. Duncan, charged with padding a cheque.., was found not guilty. 1928Observer 15 Apr. 12 They claim that the list of members..was heavily ‘padded’ by the inclusion of persons without their knowledge and consent. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iv. 3/1 Beating the system can be done by padding bills, adding a dollar here, two dollars there, for medical items, clothing and so forth. 1968Economist 14 Dec. 27/2 A report by a Granada television team in Britain showed that the [voting] lists were padded. 1976‘M. Albrand’ Taste of Terror xi. 67 Forster never paid but preferred to be sent a bill in spite of the fact that he knew it was padded. 3. To impregnate with a liquid or paste by squeezing between rollers, the substance applied being either on one of the rollers or in a bath preceding them.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 227 The goods are to be padded in a solution of the sulphate or muriate of manganese. 1897C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 324 They first pad the leather with a solution of alizarine rendered slightly alkaline with ammonia. 1927C. E. Mullin Acetate Silk (1928) xxx. 375 In applying the developed colors on cotton, the fiber is usually first padded in the naphthol bath and then the color developed in a second bath. 1933Chem. Abstr. XXVII. 2045 Fabrics having a cellulose acetate pile are printed or padded with a soln. of regenerated cellulose in caustic alkali to obtain a local or over-all deposition of cellulose. 1972D. Hildebrand in K. Venkataraman Chem. Synthetic Dyes VI. iii. 431 The fabric which has been padded with dyestuff and anti⁓crease agent is stored in the presence of mineral acid as catalyst for 1–3 hours. 4. To glue the edges of (leaves of paper) together so as to form a pad.
18..Writer III. 82 (Cent.) A half-pint of the cement will pad a vast quantity of sheets. II. 5. E. Ind. To place or pack (big game, etc.) on the pad of an elephant.
1878J. Inglis Sport & W. xx. 276 While game is being padded the whole line waits. 1879F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 189, I..killed the deer. We padded it, and continued our way. Ibid. II. 143 Whilst we were padding this tiger, one of my elephants..walked off. III. 6. To track by the pad or footmarks.
1861G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman v. 70 Burnet, who..was well up to any sort of woodcraft, padded a ‘skunk’ and a racoon. IV. 7. To perforate with small holes, as in making the ‘rose’ of a nozzle.
1889Engineer 11 Jan. 39 In order to prevent a false reading of the water gauge, it was ‘padded’, that is to say, the end of the tube in the top of the upcast shaft was perforated with numerous small holes. |