tread
verb (used without object)
to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk.
treader
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a word derived from
tread.
Example Sentences
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The narrowest spade is usually made with a spur in front, or what the Irish call a treader, on which to place the foot in driving it into the earth.
From Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French
Our Swan of Avon hath sung his last; but we have stout old Ben, with as much learning and genius as ever prompted the treader of sock and buskin.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
I, your son, your daughter, treader of music, Lie broken, conquered....
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
The wedge projects, and forms a "treader," broad and firm, on which the foot comes down, to drive the spade into the ground.
From Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French
Behold, days come, saith the Lord, and the ploughman reacheth to the reaper, and the treader of the wine-press to him that soweth seed.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
