pad the hoof

At length, Charley Bates expressed his opinion that it was time to pad the hoof.

I know it's a lot to ask--in the circumstances, I mean; but I got to go, and I can't very well pad the hoof like this.

The leather booties had padded the hoofs, the bare human feet were soft and pliant, and they had walked slowly, not adding their weight to that of the horses.

We padded the hoof doon Stokie High Street n Kingsland Road, doon tae the market.

Gav's new gaff is in McDonald Road; ah decide tae pad the hoof Whin ah git doon tae his place, he isnae in a happy frame ay mind.

During the night a small Cossack detachment led by Stepan Hulyanytsky, having padded the hoofs of their horses with cloth, stole under the cover of night behind the enemy lines and captured the bridge that Pozharsky used to cross the river.

Although, with a slightly sinking feeling, she already guessed, she asked him where he was going, and he said: 'I'll be stooging around in my car till I come on a judy that's padding the hoof on her lonesome with no one in sight.

Their condition after the storm was pitiable, their state of vagrancy more pronounced than ever; for, poor crop that it was, its destruction had taken away the chance of earning a few pennies, and nothing remained for thousands of them but to "pad the hoof" back to London.