upon the pad

English

Phrase

upon the pad

1. Alternative form of on the pad
   • 1625, Jonson, Staple of News, page 9:

     A rogue, a very caner I, sir, one that maunds upon the pad.

   • 1748, Capt. James MacKlecan, A General and True History of the Lives and Actions of the most Famous Highwaymen, Street-Robbers, Pirates, &c., page 414:

     For Offences of this Nature, she was thrice burnt in the Hand, after which she marry'd one Humphry Jackson, a Butcher, who was taught by her to leave off his Trade, and go upon the Pad in the Day time, while she went upon the Buttock and Twang by Night;

   • 1895, The New Review - Volume 13, page 681:

     But the one restraint was as irksome as the other, and Harry Simms abandoned the needle, as he had scorned the grammar, to go upon the pad.

   • 1968, George de Forest Lord, Poems on Affairs of State: 1685-1688, edited by G. M. Crump:

     Should our case be ne'er so bad, We will never be so mad As to go upon the pad Whilst our life endureth.