tread

To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.

He trod back and forth wearily.

Don't tread on the lawn.

To step or walk upon.

Actors tread the boards.

To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).

to tread lightly, to tread gently

to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily

To beat or press with the feet.

to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path

To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.

Round about them was a circle of girls and wives of the neighbouring tenants; "they trod the spinning-wheels with diligent feet, or were using the scraping carding-combs," as an author has it.

A step taken with the foot.

A manner of stepping.

She is coming, my own, my sweet; / Were it ever so airy a tread, / My heart would hear her and beat.

The sound made when someone or something is walking.

The steps fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing, for all they went so slowly; it was different indeed from the heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyll. Utterson sighed. "Is there never anything else?" he asked.

But when, after a singularly heavy tread and the jingle of spurs on the platform, the door flew open to the newcomer, he seemed a realization of our worst expectations.

A way; a track or path.

And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, For lacke of tread are vndistinguishable.

A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.

The dog was waiting for him, her paws on the second tread, pere regardant with a happy lolling tongue.