treader
- 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 French, Henry F. (Henry Flagg)
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 French, Henry F. (Henry Flagg)
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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Lindsay, Vachel
