[ noun ] a highwayman who robs on foot <noun.person>
Footpad \Foot"pad`\, n. A highwayman or robber on foot.
pad \pad\ (p[a^]d), n. [D. pad. [root]21. See {Path}.] 1. A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. --Addison
An abbot on an ambling pad. --Tennyson.
3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a {footpad}. --Gay. --Byron.
4. The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]
As the footpad who referees their rows - the film's US title was The Ref - stand-up comic Dennis Leary looks as if he wished he had never sat down in his Disney actor's chair.