Word Meanings - TREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 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. To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TREAD)

• Pace
• Step
• stride
• tread
• gait
• Walk
• march
• stalk
• plod
• tramp
• trudge

Related words: (words related to TREAD)

• STALKY
  Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer.
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• STRIDE
  strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining
• STALK-EYED
  Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia.
• MARCH
  The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares,
• STALKLESS
  Having no stalk.
• TRAMP
  Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp
• TREADBOARD
  See 5
• MARCHING
  ,fr. March, v. Marching money , the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order , equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. A regiment in active service. In England, a regiment liable
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• 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.
• MARCHIONESS
  The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.
• MARCH-MAD
  Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.
• TRAMPER
  One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.
• TRUDGEN STROKE
  A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; -- so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but often erroneously written trudgeon.
• MARCHET; MERCHET
  In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
• STRIDENT
  Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• OVERSTRIDE
  To stride over or beyond.
• OVERTREAD
  To tread over or upon.
• OVERMARCH
  To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.
• DISMARCH
  To march away.
• RETREAD
  To tread again.
• OUTMARCH
  To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.
• ASTRIDE
  With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.