trode

English

Verb

trode

1. (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

1. (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)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• doter, orted, roted, toder