To form puddles under the tread of horses: said of the ground.n. Any horizontal element in a floor upon which the walker treads or presses, and so gives an alarm or makes a signal.To set the foot down, as on the ground.To press or be put down on or as on the ground.To walk; step; especially, to walk with a more or less stately, measured, or cautious step.To copulate, as birds: said especially of a cock-bird.To follow closely.To step or walk on.To beat or press with the feet: as, a well-trodden path.To crush under the foot; trample in contempt or hatred.To dance.To walk.To copulate with or cover, as a bird.To destroy, extinguish, or obliterate by or as by treading or trampling.n. A step or stepping; footing; pressure with the foot.n. Way; track; path. See trade, n. 2.n. Copulation, as of birds.n. The cicatricula of an egg: so called from the former erroneous belief that it appeared only in fecundated eggs laid by the hen after the tread of the cock. Compare treadle.n. Manner of stepping: as, a horse with a good tread.n. The flat or horizontal part of a step or stair; a tread-board.n. The length of a ship's keel.n. The bearing surface of a wheel or of a runner on a road or rail.n. The part of a rail on which the wheels bear.n. The part of a stilt on which the foot rests.n. That part of the sole of a boot or shoe which touches the ground in walking.n. The top of the banquette of a fortification, on which soldiers stand to fire.n. The upper side of the bed of a lathe between the head-stock and the back-center.n. The width from pedal to pedal of a bicycle.n. A wound on the coronet of a horse's foot, produced by the shoe of either hind or fore foot of the opposite side.