treader
- noun
- /ˈtrɛdər/
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pisador
- Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Harper. 4 cassettes.
Examples
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Dusty Springfield there on the Dawn Treader, with quite possibly the finest white soul voice in the world.
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Bob Silver, the Dawn Treader.
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The treaders included women and school-age boys (n1).
Academic text (1990) -
An inferno of mud-soaked bodies, where the treaders' feet churn clay and straw into the mixture for the Pharaoh 's bricks.
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From the mixing feet of treaders to the pouring hands of brick molders moves the constant stream of mud, the lowly seed of tall cities, day after day, year after year; century after century.
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Some hard clams were gathered with tongs and short-handle rakes, and in summer, by barefoot treaders.
Academic text (1990) -
Tongers and short-handle rakers could gather 3-9 bushels a day: treaders, two to three bushels a day.
Academic text (1990) -
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace, where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader.
Blog text (12) -
He gets the fork and hoe from their corner on the gallery that was never finished, and uses the long-handled hoe to skip the two empty steps where the treaders were broken off and need replacing.
Fiction book (1995) -
The treaders of the muddy path left deep footprints behind them.
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Etymology
The word treader comes from the verb tread, which means 'to step' or 'press down', plus the ending -er that means 'one who' or 'something that does it'. So a treader is literally someone or something that 'steps on' or walks over a surface, the same idea you see in the familiar word treadmill.