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▪ I. padder, n.1|ˈpædə(r)|
[f. pad n.2 or v.1 + -er1.]
A footpad, highwayman, robber.
1610Rowlands Martin Mark-all 50 Such as robbe on horse-backe were called high lawyers, and those who robbed on foote, he called Padders. 1678Dryden Limberham Epil., Lord, with what rampant gadders Our counters will be thronged, and roads with padders! 1719Young Busiris iv. i, But sweep his minions, cut a padder's throat. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 237 We are not a gang of padders and michers, but a crew of honest seamen.
fig.1667Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all iv. i, If she had stirred out of doors, there were Whipsters abroad, i' faith, padders of maidenheads. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 86. 3/2 Three Padders in Wit, Who must steal all they get.
▪ II. ˈpadder, n.2
1. One who pads (see pad v.2 1 b).
1827Lytton Pelham xi, Sir H. M. was close by her, carefully packed up in his coat and waistcoat. Certainly, that man is the best padder in Europe.
2. A padding machine.
1927C. E. Mullin Acetate Silk (1928) xxviii. 361 It is usually best to dye the acetate silk first and then cross⁓dye the cotton either in the padder or jig. 1955Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists LXXI. 894/2 In order to get as good impregnation as possible before the fabric reaches the nip of the padder, this small volume is combined with a comparatively long path through the padder trough. 1971E. I. Valko in H. Mark et al. Chem. Aftertreatment of Textiles iii. 105 Impregnation of fabric is frequently carried out by first immersing the fabric and then pulling it between the rolls of a padder.
3. Electronics. Also padder capacitor, condenser. A usu. adjustable capacitor connected in series in a tuned circuit in order to improve the tracking with another tuned circuit at low frequencies when the tuning of the two circuits is ganged (as in a superheterodyne). Cf. trimmer.
1936J. H. Reyner Testing Radio Sets (ed. 3) xiii. 190 (in figure) Padder. 1939H. J. Hicks Princ. & Pract. Radio Servicing ii. 21 C10, C11, C12 and C13 are the trimmer and padder condensers employed in the oscillator circuit to make it track with the r.f. tuning condenser. 1950A. Marcus Radio Servicing xi. 453 In addition to the series padder, a small trimmer capacitor is usually connected in parallel with the main tuning capacitor. 1971A. Margolis Mod. Radio Repair Techniques vi. 82 To maintain the tracking difference, a smaller oscillator coil and padder capacitor is added to the circuit.
▪ III. † ˈpadder, v. Sc. Obs.
[Freq. of pad v.1: see -er5.]
trans. To tread, trample down.
1789Davidson Seasons 87 Less valid, some, Though not less dext'rous, on the padder'd green..shoot forth the penny⁓stane. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v., A road through the snow is padderd, when it has been often trod. |