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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



... had a boy, and he should grow to be a man, and another man should tread on his toes, and he should knock the other man down, and the other man should die, and they should hang my boy," rattled off Mr. Phillips in anything but a ...
— Three People • Pansy
... thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head. And we far away ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... was refreshing. Here and there an old woman kneeled at prayer, her face in her hands. Du Roy looked at his watch again. It was not yet a quarter past three. He took a seat, regretting that he could not smoke. At the end of the church near the choir; he could hear the measured tread of a corpulent man whom he had noticed when he entered. Suddenly the rustle of a gown made him start. It was she. He arose and advanced quickly. She did not offer him her hand and whispered: "I have only a few minutes. You must kneel near me ...
— Bel Ami • Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant
... work, yet with a kind of agonized clairvoyance they were conscious of all that Herter did. The same thought was in the minds of both young doctors. They exchanged impressions afterward. "He'll cut the boy's heart out and tread it underfoot!" ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... to follow the counsel of Horace, and dear as earnest labour was becoming, I still lacked method, a fixed goal towards which to move with firm tread in the seclusion to which ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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