Meaning of Tread | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   obsolete
5. A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
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. 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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Examples

“She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat.”

“The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.”

“But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.”

“As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.”

“And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.”

“The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.”

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