The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trode \Trode\, archaic imp. of Tread.
On burnished hooves his war-horse trode.
--Tennyson.
Trode \Trode\, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See Tread.]
Tread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) tread; footing. vb. (obsolete spelling of trod English)
Usage examples of "trode".
II When, grown a Shade, beholding That land in lifetime trode, To learn if its unfolding Fulfilled its clamoured code, I saw, in web unbroken, Its history outwrought Not as the loud had spoken, But as the mute had thought.
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Next after him went Doubt, who was ycladIn a discolour'd cote, of straunge disguyse,That at his backe a brode Capuccio had,And sleeues dependant Albanese-wyse:He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes,And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way,Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse,And on a broken reed he still did stayHis feeble steps, which shrunke, when hard theron he lay.