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TREAD

tread

(verb) brace (an archer’s bow) by pressing the foot against the center

tread

(verb) mate with; “male birds tread the females”

tread

(verb) crush as if by treading on; “tread grapes to make wine”

tread, trample

(verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly; “The soldiers trampled across the fields”

step, tread

(verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot; “For fools rush in where angels fear to tread”; “step on the brake”

tread

(verb) apply (the tread) to a tire

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

trod

simple past tense of tread

Etymology 2

Verb

trod (third-person singular simple present trods, present participle trodding, simple past and past participle trodded)

To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread

Etymology 3

Noun

trod (plural trods)

A track or pathway.

Anagrams

• Dort, dort, dtor

Source: Wiktionary

Trod,

Definition: imp. & p. p. of Tread.

TREAD

Tread, v. i. [imp. Trod; p. p. Trodden, Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.] Etym: [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]

1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Pope. The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go. Chaucer.

2. To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep. Milton.

3. To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. Shak. To tread on or upon. (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth.

– To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." Milton. One woe doth tread upon another's heel. Shak.

Tread, v. t.

1. To step or walk on. Forbid to tread the promised land he saw. Prior. Methought she trod the ground with greater grace. Dryden.

2. To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.

3. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like. " I am resolved to forsake Malta, tread a pilgrimage to fair Jerusalem." Beau. & Fl. They have measured many a mile, To tread a measure with you on this grass. Shak.

4. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue. Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. Ps. xliv. 5.

5. To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird. Chaucer. To tread out, to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses.

– To tread the stage, to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.

Tread, n.

1. A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread. She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat. Tennyson.

2. Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.

3. Way; track; path. [R.] Shak.

4. The act of copulation in birds.

5. (Arch.)

Definition: The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.

6. (Fort.)

Definition: The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

7. (Mach.) (a) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail. (b) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.

8. (Biol.)

Definition: The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.

9. (Far.)

Definition: A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

TROD

TREAD

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