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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. {Trod}; p. p. {Trodden}, {Trod}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Treading}.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to
OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG.
tretan, Icel. tro?a, Sw. tr[*a]da, tr["a]da, Dan. tr[ae]de,
Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. ? a
running, Skr. 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Trod \Trod\,
imp. & p. p. of {Tread}.


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