Definition of "foot-passenger" [foot-passenger]

• One who travels on foot; especially, one who pays toll for passing on foot, as over a bridge. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "More than once a heavy truck had crushed a heedless foot-passenger under that arch-way."
• "If on a rainy day some foot-passenger takes refuge under the long vault, with projecting lime-washed beams, which leads from the door to the staircase, he will hardly fail to pause and look at the picture presented by the interior of this house."
• "It was the work of a few moments to drag out the man-trap, very gently — that the plate might not be disturbed sufficiently to throw it — to a space between a pair of young oaks which, rooted in contiguity, grew apart upward, forming a V-shaped opening between; and, being backed up by bushes, left this as the only course for a foot-passenger."