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tread(1)(dictionary)
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tread(1) (iou)



tread noun. ME.
[from the verb.]
I.
A footprint. rare. ME.
A line of footprints, a track, a trail. Cf. TRADE noun 10b. LME-E19.
A trodden way, a path. Chiefly fig. Cf. TRADE noun 10. LME.
The action or an act of treading or walking; the manner or sound of this; a step. LME.
J. le Carre The youthful springiness of his tread. Julia Hamilton She sat..listening to Edmund's firm tread crossing the hall.
b. An act of treadling. rare. L17.
The action of a male bird in copulation. L17-M18.
II.
A course or manner of action, esp. a regular one; a habit, a custom. Cf. TRADE noun 11. Chiefly Scot. (now dial.). M16.
Coming and going; communication, dealings. Also, fuss, trouble. Cf. TRADE noun 2a, b. Scot. (now dial.). M16.
= TRADE noun 12a. Scot. L16.
III.
The chalaza of an egg. Now rare. L16.
A bruise or wound of the coronet of a horse's foot, caused by setting one foot on another. M17.
The horizontal upper surface of a step or a stair; the width of this from front to back. Also tread board. E18.
K. Amis Mr Pastry's tennis-ball lying..on the second tread from the top.
b. Fortification. A terrace at the back of a parapet, from which to fire. M19.
c. Physical Geography. The approximately horizontal part of each of a series of steplike landforms, as in a glacial stairway or river terrace. E20.
The part of the sole of the foot or of a shoe which comes in contact with the ground in walking. E18.
a. A wheel track, a rut (dial.); the transverse distance between two wheels on a vehicle. Now esp., the part of a wheel on a vehicle that touches the ground or a rail; the part of a rail that the wheels of a vehicle touch. M18.
b. The thick moulded surface of a pneumatic tyre designed to grip the road. L19.
attrib.: Mountain Biker The open tread pattern on this new Fisher tyre.
treaded adjective (of a tyre) having a moulded tread E20.
treadless adjective (esp. of a tyre) having no tread M20.