0 to put your foot on something or to press something down with your foot: --
1 the pattern of raised lines on a tyre that prevents a vehicle from sliding on the road: --
2 the sound that your feet make on the ground as you walk: --
3 to put the foot down while stepping, or to step on something: --
4 the raised pattern on a tire that holds the vehicle to the road as it moves: --
It must be stressed that there are a lot of unknowns in this crude analysis of a flight made with rebated treads.
The load is transmitted from tread to tread by the steel collar threaded on to the baluster.
The treads are made of precast concrete in a replica of the finely tapered section used in nineteenth-century staircases, and are built in 4v2 inches.
They put their faith in the rebates and cut the treads down to the elegant triangular section that became the standard for the nineteenth century.
The treads are separate and rebated, but without any additional stonework across the window.
He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me.
Other titular distinctions that might arise in the decision as to who may tread were of less importance.
But of course one must tread very carefully here.