noun

• (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.
• (slang) a tablet PC
• (music) A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

verb

• (transitive) To stuff.
• (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
  "The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends."
• (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
  "to pad cloth"

noun

• (British, dialectal) A toad.

noun

• (British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
  "And when the map shows that the creek will no longer take him where he wants to go, then he looks for an animal pad and follows it, getting down on his belly and wriggling under thorny bush when he has to."
• (British, obsolete) A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
  "A Pad came pacing down the way : / The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue , / Upon the passing trav'ler sprung"
• (British, obsolete) A tramp or itinerant musician.