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n. Plural form of tread.

v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tread.

"That he says all this below a website banner that has him posed with a cup of tea and an umbrella in front of an airship and a row of Victorian style houses atop a big, hulking city on treads is just laughable."

to tread upon   

rise    riser   

treaded    treades    treading    treads    trod    trodden   

surface    apply    give    pair    copulate    couple    mate    tangency    contact    structural member   

trample    to tread in one's steps(or footsteps)    to tread on one's toes    to tread water    to tread out    to tread awry    rubber tread    to tread under foot    to tread the bounds    to tread down   

trod    trodden    interfere   

tread water    untrod   

copulate    subdue    feather    cover    footstep    action    gait    way    track    path   

Ed    Fed    Fred    Freda    Ged    Head    Jed    Med    Ned    Read   

footstep    stride    gait    tramp    thud    clatter    whisper    knock    beat    pace