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Tread   /trɛd/   Listen
verb
Tread  v. t.  (past trod; past part. trodden; pres. part. treading)  
1.
To step or walk on. "Forbid to tread the promised land he saw." "Methought she trod the ground with greater grace."
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." "They have measured many a mile, To tread a measure with you on this grass."
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."
5.
To copulate with; to feather; to cover; said of the male bird.
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  v. i.  (past trod; past part. trodden; pres. part. treading)  
1.
To set the foot; to step. "Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise." "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go."
2.
To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step. "Ye that... stately tread, or lowly creep."
3.
To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
To tread on or To tread upon.
(a)
To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places."
(b)
to follow closely. "Year treads on year."
To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." "One woe doth tread upon another's heel."


noun
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."
2.
Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
3.
Way; track; path. (R.)
4.
The act of copulation in birds.
5.
(Arch.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
6.
(Fort.) 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.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
9.
(Far.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.





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"Tread" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. You said that she was a fool like most women. Like all women, was what you thought! And women were made just for you to tread upon and sneer at. You did not know that I knew a great deal more about Helga Strawn ...
— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory
... sat the young Spartan warrior, waiting for the steps of the beloved one, may, at this very hour, some rustic lover be seated, with a heart beating with like emotions, and an ear listening for as light a tread. Love alone never passes away from the spot where its footstep hath once pressed the earth, and reclaimed the savage. Traditions, freedom, the thirst for glory, art, laws, creeds, vanish; but the eye thrills the breast, and hand warms to hand, as before the name of Lycurgus was heard, ...
— Pausanias, the Spartan - The Haunted and the Haunters, An Unfinished Historical Romance • Lord Lytton
... Coming toward us. But not floating, for I could see the legs moving, the arms swaying. With measured tread it was ...
— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings
... to tread the way of righteousness, and so come to 'reverence and the silver hair,' we must govern ourselves. So the next proverb extols the ruler of his own spirit as 'more than conquerors,' whose triumphs are won in such vulgar fields as battles and sieges, ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... hours in the gondola, writing my letters or watching the thousand and one sights of the streets, for I often allow Salemina and the Little Genius to tread their way through the highways and byways of Venice while I stay behind and observe life from beneath the grateful shade ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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