# trod

Pronunciation: say "TROD" US /tɹɑd/, UK /tɹɒd/

## Verb

1. Simple past of tread. — simple past of tread
   - Simple: Simple past of tread. Use it for steps someone took before now.
   - _The workers trod the grapes in wooden vats, just as their grandparents had._
   - _He trod lightly around the subject of money, knowing how touchy his father was._
2. To tread, or to walk heavily and laboriously.
   - Simple: To walk with heavy, tired steps, or to step on something.

## Noun

3. A track or path along which people or animals travel.
   - Simple: A path or track that people or animals walk along.
   - _The walkers left the road and picked up a flagged trod that ran between the two villages._
   - _Old packhorse trods still cross the moors, their paving stones hollowed by centuries of hooves._

## Origin

**Meaning 2** — From Middle English trod, the past participle of treden (see tread). Compare Norwegian trod ("a path").
**Meaning 3** — From Old English trodu ("track, trace"), which comes from the same source as tread.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/trod (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).