Crossword clues for treading
treading
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tread \Tread\, v. i. [imp. Trod; p. p. Trodden, Trod; p. pr. & vb. n. Treading.] [OE. treden, AS. tredan; akin to OFries. treda, OS. tredan, D. & LG. treden, G. treten, OHG. tretan, Icel. tro?a, Sw. tr[*a]da, tr["a]da, Dan. tr[ae]de, Goth. trudan, and perhaps ultimately to F. tramp; cf. Gr. ? a running, Skr. dram to run. Cf. Trade, Tramp, Trot.]
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To set the foot; to step.
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise.
--Pope.Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
--Pope.The hard stone Under our feet, on which we tread and go.
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To walk or go; especially, to walk with a stately or a cautious step.
Ye that . . . stately tread, or lowly creep.
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To copulate; said of birds, esp. the males. --Shak. To tread on or To tread upon.
To trample; to set the foot on in contempt. ``Thou shalt tread upon their high places.''
--Deut. xxxiii. 29.-
to follow closely. ``Year treads on year.''
--Wordsworth.To tread upon the heels of, to follow close upon. ``Dreadful consequences that tread upon the heels of those allowances to sin.''
--Milton.One woe doth tread upon another's heel.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who treads. vb. (present participle of tread English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "treading".
He headed for the fountain to wait for his grandson, treading like a snow leopard across the Himalayas, knowing a mate must be somewhere up there among the alpenglow and mist.
Soon after Mariuccia came in, looking timid, confused, and as if she were doubtful of the path she was treading.
Where Amber joy 173 had ploughed on, getting ever further from the bird, Dandy Lass stopped and, treading water, looked back to where Centaine stood on the far bank.
The young men had brought a fiddler from the village, and it was not long before most of the company were treading the measures of reels or cotillons on the grass.
Finding himself behind her, he had taken the precaution to lift up her dress to avoid treading on it.
So they continued to dig into the exposed guts on the Krang without disturbing a single wire from its proper place, treading with the utmost care lest they nudge some vital circuit from its proper alignment.
Gently, he touched her arm, shook her out of her mourning, and together, treading softly as Nata had advised, they walked over the graves of countless Verunan dead and approached the ship.
Toranaga retched again and spat out the phlegm, treading water, and thought, that will teach you to be smug.
As they walked along this strange hall, Ricordo noted again that he was treading upon plates of metal.
Lights shone in the windows, music was in the air, and as I drew nearer my ear detected the sibilant shuffling of the feet of butlers, footmen, chauffeurs, parlourmaids, housemaids, tweenies and, I have no doubt, cooks, who were busily treading the measure.
Ebben Owens was already up to receive them, the big oak coffers in the grain room were swept out, the dry meal poured into them, and Twm the carter, with white cotton stockings kept for the occasion drawn over his feet and legs, stood in the coffers treading the meal into as hard a mass as possible.
They seemed uncaring of their dead and wounded, for when one fell, none went to his aid but only passed, often treading on the fallen so that the wounded were crushed under the weight of their fellows.
She rounded the comer from the kitchen, treading carefully on the wom carpet.
Therefore Angus Parvis, treading the ground of Titan with heavy steps, gave no thought to the black shaft above his head, or to the pushbutton glowing like a ruby within its transparent little bubble-case.
She climbs a little round hill, a frost-heaved pingo, treading where no one has ever trod before, and looks south.