tread
verb
- 1
To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
“Don't tread on the lawn.”
- 2
To step or walk upon.
“Actors tread the boards.”
- 3
To beat or press with the feet.
“to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path”
- 4
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
- 5
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
- 6
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
- 7
(of a male bird) To copulate with.
noun
- 1
A step taken with the foot.
- 2
A manner of stepping.
- 3
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
- 4
A way; a track or path.
- 5
The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
- 6
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
- 7
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
- 8
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
- 9
The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
- 10
(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
- 11
A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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