tread

1. (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.Examples: "He trod back and forth wearily."; "Don't tread on the lawn."; "And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet haue troden, shall be thine inheritance, and thy childrens for euer, because thou hast wholly followed the Lord my God."intransitive

2. (transitive) To step or walk upon.Examples: "Actors tread the boards."transitive

3. (figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).Examples: "to tread lightly, to tread gently"; "to tread carefully, to tread cautiously, to tread warily"figuratively

4. (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.Examples: "When Turtles tread, and Rookes and Dawes, And Maidens bleach their summer smockes:"intransitive

5. (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.Examples: "Thus, a poultry-breeder describes a hen (colored Dorking) crowing like a cock, only somewhat more harshly, as a cockerel crows, and with an enormous comb, larger than is ever seen in the male. This bird used to try to tread her fellow-hens."transitive

6. (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wineSynonyms: stomptransitive