Word Meanings - FORTREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tread down; to trample upon. In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to FORTREAD)

• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• TREADBOARD
  See 5
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• TREADFOWL
  A cock. Chaucer.
• TREADMILL
  A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
• TREAD
  tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro, Sw. tråda, träda, Dan. træde, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. 1. To set the foot; to step. Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise. Pope. Fools rush in where
• TREADLE
  The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread. (more info) 1. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• SHALL
  sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
• SHALLOW-PATED
  Shallow-brained.
• SHALLOWNESS
  Quality or state of being shallow.
• SHALLON
  An evergreen shrub of Northwest America; also, its fruit. See Salal-berry.
• TRAMPLER
  One who tramples; one who treads down; as, a trampler on nature's law. Cowper.
• TRAMPLE
  Etym: 1. To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers. Dryden. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet. Matt. vii. 6. 2. Fig.: To treat with contempt and
• DEVILSHIP
  The character or person of a devil or the devil. Cowley.
• SHALLOW-HEARTED
  Incapable of deep feeling. Tennyson.
• TREADWHEEL
  A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.
• OVERTREAD
  To tread over or upon.
• RETREAD
  To tread again.
• MISTREADING
  Misstep; misbehavior. "To punish my mistreadings." Shak.
• UNTREAD
  To tread back; to retrace. Shak.
• FORTREAD
  To tread down; to trample upon. In hell shall they be all fortroden of devils. Chaucer.
• DISHALLOW
  To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson. Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar. T. Adams.