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trode

British  
/ trəʊd /

verb

  1. archaic a past tense of tread

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Seven months later, the result was the same for Namajunas, even if the path she and Weili trode was unfamiliar.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2021

Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by.

From Time Magazine Archive

And with those also who followed the latter, or trode side by side with him, he has many points of resemblance or identity.

From A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy by Spalding, William

Forward eleven warriors trode,    The mard and sable they were wearing, They all were clad in princely mode,    In tresses each his hair was bearing.

From Axel Thordson and Fair Valborg a ballad by Borrow, George Henry

And into the Church Saint Oluf trode,    His beautiful hair like the bright gold glow’d.

From Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams and other ballads by Borrow, George Henry