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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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
Edwin Markham, the dean of American singers, Clark Ashton Smith, the young star treader, George Sterling, that son of Ancient Merlin, have in their songs the seeds of better scenarios than California has sent us.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay
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
I, your son, your daughter, treader of music, Lie broken, conquered....
From American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany by Various
Does nature, even in my octogenarian carcase, run too strong that I must be still a bawler and a brawler and a treader upon corns?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
