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treading, vbl. n.|ˈtrɛdɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb tread in various senses.
c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxiv, Ye may Jugge..an herte chaseable..by þe tredynge of þe grasse. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §128 Well hardened with caryage and treading vpon. 1615W. V[allans] Hon. Prentice 33 A flat Marble stone..much defaced with treading, and neere worne out. 1709–10Steele Tatler No. 126 ⁋4 He heard..the Treading of one who approach'd. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 660 To press the soil on it firmly by treading.
b. pl.
c1440Promp. Parv. 501/1 Tredyngys, wythe the foote. 1535Coverdale Song Sol. vii. 1 O how pleasaunt are thy treadinges with thy shues. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 20 The women..equall if not exceed the men in their more laborious treadings [in dancing]. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 89, I heard secret treadings and mutterings. 1865Englishm. Mag. Feb. 147 With treadings slow and whisperings low Men sadly count the slain.
2. concr. Anything made by treading; spec. the footprint of a boar. See also cock-treading.
1573,1655[see cock-treading]. 1575Turberv. Venerie 237 The footyng or print is called..of a Bore, the tracke or the Treading. 1731–3Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. xx. 295 Their [horses'] Treadings are cut so small by the Coulters, that the Earth is not kept from dissolving.
3. attrib. treading-mill = treadmill; treading-room, a room in which the materials of porcelain are kneaded together by treading.
1535Coverdale Isa. xli. 15, I wil make the a treadinge cart & a new flale, yt thou mayest throsshe & grynde the mountaynes. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 54 [Jove did] transform himself into a Swan, to try The treading way of Letchery. 1752Gentl. Mag. Aug. 348 The next (on the ground floor) is the slip and treading rooms. 1830Southey in Q. Rev. XLIII. 50 Road-making..which serves in those islands in place of the treading-mill. |