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What does tread mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To step or walk (on or over something); to trample.
  2. (transitive) To step or walk upon.
  3. To beat or press with the feet.
  4. To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
  5. To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue.
  6. (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
  7. (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
Noun
  1. A step.
  2. A manner of stepping.
  3. (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
  4. The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction. [from 1900s]
  5. The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
  6. The horizontal part of a step in a flight of stairs.
  7. The sound made when someone or something is walking.
  8. (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
  9. The act of copulation in birds.
  10. (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
  11. A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.
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