tread

Pronunciation: /tɹɛd/

The English word “tread” has 20 meanings listed here.

verb

To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
To step or walk upon.
To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
To beat or press with the feet.
To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
To copulate with (a hen).
To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

A step taken with the foot.
A manner of stepping.
The sound made when someone or something is walking.
A way; a track or path.
A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.

From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.

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