The smugglers were a lawless and desperate body, but they did not, as a rule, descend to footpaddery or robbery.
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Footpaddery
//fʊtˈpæ.dɚˌɹi//
Synonyms for "footpaddery"
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Not just a little footpaddery, but robbery on the grand scale.
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Whilst descriptions of 'The West End Fair Gang', and freferences to the 'Captain of the Gan' John Henley, recall models of criminal confederacy evoked in earlier accounts of highway robbery and footpaddery, these events, wrapped as they were in the language of hustling, also reflect some of the newer concerns about public space in this period.
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