trode
English
Verb
trode
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of tread
- 1794, Ann Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho:
- wilds […] no human had ever trode before. (III, ix)
- 1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part the third, page 14:
- His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed. / On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode.
Noun
trode
- (obsolete) Tread; footing.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Fruitfull of all thinges fitt for living foode ,
But wholy waste and void of peoples trode
Synonyms
- (tread; footing): troad
Noun
trode (plural trodes)
- Clipping of electrode.
- 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 65:
- Routine now: trodes, jack, and flip.
References
- “trode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.