How to pronounce pad

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What pad means

verb

Most people know pad in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To walk with soft, quiet, steady steps

In a sentence: We watched the fox pad silently across the snowy yard.

Where it comes from: This sense may come from an old word for a path, and partly from the soft sound of footsteps. No one is sure it is the same word as the cushion.

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