Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which treads.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who treads.
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- noun
Agent noun oftread ; one who treads.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Isoult lightly set her foot on the bowed head; but he who watched the ceremony with dimmed eyes saw that the treader was the humblest there.
The Forest Lovers Maurice Hewlett 1892
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The wedge projects, and forms a "treader," broad and firm, on which the foot comes down, to drive the spade into the ground.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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"I think it would be better if the spur, or" treader, "were movable and of iron, so as to be put on the other side or in front," suggests another.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French
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The horses 'shoes would strike fire from the level rock of the long "treader" above, the wagon would be bounced up the step, when a little bit of level would bring them to another rise in the staircase.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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Then it's on to the Voyage of the Dawn treader, one of my absolute favorites.
The Many Characters of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Well I really really hope they make more after the dawn treader one!
Wait - So There Will Be More Narnia? Who Really Cares Anymore? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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There was the storm-treader tree that had killed old Hannah in an unwary moment.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
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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.
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