LekhoriLekhoriA flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
A toad.
A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
And when the map shows that the creek will no longer take him where he wants to go, then he looks for an animal pad and follows it, getting down on his belly and wriggling under thorny bush when he has to.
An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, / An abbot on an ambling pad, / Sometimes a curly shepherd lad, / Or long-hair'd page, in crimson clad, / Goes by to Camelot.
A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
Initialism of peripheral artery disease.
To stuff.
To furnish with a pad or padding.
To travel along (a road, path etc.).
Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.
1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from ...
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Padding the streets for half a crown.