(UK, slang, obsolete) To beg at the roadside.
(UK, slang, obsolete) To beg at the roadside.
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An obsolete piece of British thieves and vagabond cant for a lodging house that catered to tramps and vagabonds — essentially a dosshouse. Padding referred to the act of walking the roads (padding the hoof), and ken was cant for a house. Documented in 18th and 19th century slang dictionaries.
(archaic) A thief on foot who robs travellers on the road.
(intransitive, UK, _, dialectal) To make or offer resistance.
Any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
(UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To rear or leap.