To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
He trod back and forth wearily.
To step or walk upon.
Actors tread the boards.
To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
to tread lightly, to tread gently
From Middle English treden, from Old English tredan, from Proto-West Germanic *tredan, from Proto-Germanic *trudaną.
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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.