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The Meaning of tread
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(v. i.) To set the foot; to step.
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(v. i.) To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
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(v. i.) To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males.
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(v. t.) To step or walk on.
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(v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path.
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(v. t.) To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, or the like.
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(v. t.) To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
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(v. t.) To copulate with; to feather; to cover; -- said of the male bird.
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(n.) A step or stepping; pressure with the foot; a footstep; as, a nimble tread; a cautious tread.
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(n.) Manner or style of stepping; action; gait; as, the horse has a good tread.
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(n.) Way; track; path.
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(n.) The act of copulation in birds.
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(n.) The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot is placed.
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(n.) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
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(n.) The part of a wheel that bears upon the road or rail.
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(n.) The part of a rail upon which car wheels bear.
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(n.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
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(n.) A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes. See Interfere, 3.
Synonyms
gait
,
rate
,
tempo
,
pace
,
stride
,
step
,
yard
,
footstep
,
maltreat
,
abuse
,
trample
,
mistreat
,
ill-use
,
ill-treat
,
tramp down
,
tread down
,
travel
,
go
,
move
,
locomote
Rhymes
abed
,
aforesaid
,
ahead
,
airhead
,
armstead
,
arrowhead
,
bankhead
,
beachhead
,
bed
,
bedspread
,
behead
,
biomed
,
bled
,
blockhead
,
bloodshed
,
bobsled
,
bread
,
bred
,
bridgehead
,
broadhead
,
brodhead
,
bulkhead
,
bullhead
,
calfed
,
coed
,
copperhead
,
cornbread
,
dead
,
deadhead
,
deathbed
,
dragonhead
,
dread
,
dred
,
dredd
,
drumhead
,
ed
,
egghead
,
embed
,
farmstead
,
featherbed
,
fed
,
figurehead
,
flatbed
,
flathead
,
fled
,
fred
,
freda
,
ged
,
gingerbread
,
godhead
,
hampstead
,
hardhead
,
head
,
hollingshead
,
homestead
,
horsehead
,
hotbed
,
imbed
,
inbred
,
infrared
,
instead
,
interbred
,
jed
,
lead
,
led
,
letterhead
,
loggerhead
,
marblehead
,
masthead
,
med
,
misled
,
misread
,
ned
,
nedd
,
newlywed
,
numed
,
overfed
,
overhead
,
pled
,
purebred
,
read
,
reade
,
red
,
redd
,
redhead
,
retread
,
riverbed
,
riverhead
,
roundhead
,
said
,
sayed
,
schwed
,
seabed
,
sffed
,
shead
,
shed
,
shedd
,
shred
,
skinhead
,
sled
,
sledd
,
spearhead
,
sped
,
spread
,
stead
,
steelhead
,
sudafed
,
swed
,
szwed
,
ted
,
thickhead
,
thoroughbred
,
thread
,
trailhead
,
unread
,
unsaid
,
unted
,
unwed
,
warhead
,
watershed
,
wed
,
wedd
,
wehde
,
wellhead
,
whitehead
,
widespread
,
woodshed
,
zed