"upon the pad" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1625, Jonson, Staple of News, page 9",
          "text": "A rogue, a very caner I, sir, one that maunds upon the pad.",
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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;",
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          "ref": "1895, The New Review - Volume 13, page 681",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1968, George de Forest Lord, Poems on Affairs of State: 1685-1688, edited by G. M. Crump",
          "text": "Should our case be ne'er so bad, We will never be so mad As to go upon the pad Whilst our life endureth.",
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          "ref": "1625, Jonson, Staple of News, page 9",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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;",
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