Definitions
1.verbTo step or walk (on or over something); to trample."Don't tread on the lawn."
2.verbTo step or walk upon."Actors tread the boards."
3.verbTo beat or press with the feet."to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path"
4.verbTo go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
5.verbTo crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
6.verbTo copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
7.verb(of a male bird) To copulate with.
8.nounA step taken with the foot.
9.nounA manner of stepping.
10.nounThe sound made when someone or something is walking.
11.nounA way; a track or path.
12.nounThe horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
13.nounThe grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
14.nounThe grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
15.nounThe chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
16.nounThe act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
17.noun(fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
18.nounA bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.