tread : Idioms & Phrases


caterpillar tread

  • noun an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
    track; caterpillar track.
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crow-trodden

Crow"-trod`den adjective
Definitions
  1. Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. Poetic
    Do I look as if I were crow-trodden? Beau. & FL.
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To have the black ox tread on one's foot

  • to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). Leigh Hunt.
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To tread a measure

  • to dance in the style so called. See 9 (a).
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To tread onupon

  • . (a) To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. "Thou shalt tread upon their high places." Deut. xxxiii. 29. (b) to follow closely. "Year treads on year." Wordsworth.
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To tread on the neck of

  • to oppress; to tyrannize over.
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To tread out

  • to press out with the feet; to press out, as wine or wheat; as, to tread out grain with cattle or horses.
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To tread the stage

  • to act as a stageplayer; to perform a part in a drama.
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To tread upon one's heels

  • to follow closely. Shak.
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To tread upon the heels of

  • to follow close upon. "Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin." Milton.
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tread down

  • verb walk on and flatten
    tramp down; trample.
    • tramp down the grass
    • trample the flowers
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tread on

  • verb place or press the foot on
    step on.
    • He stepped on the hem of her long gown
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tread-softly

  • noun a stinging herb of tropical America
    pica-pica; Cnidoscolus urens; devil nettle; spurge nettle; Jatropha urens; Jatropha stimulosus.
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Tread"-soft`ly noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
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tread-wheel

  • noun a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps
    treadwheel; treadmill.
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treading water

  • noun a stroke that keeps the head above water by thrashing the legs and arms
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