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pad (2)

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pad2 /pad /
▸ verb
( pads, padding, padded)
[no object, with adverbial of direction] walk with steady steps making a soft dull sound:
she padded along the corridor.
▪ [with object] tramp along (a road or route) on foot:
he was padding the streets.
▸ noun [in singular] the soft dull sound of steady steps:
he heard the pad of feet.
– ORIGIN mid 16th century: from Low German padden ‘to tread, go along a path’, partly imitative.