Obs. or dial. [f. TROD sb.] a. trans. To follow the footprints or track of; to track, trace. b. intr. (U.S.) To pursue a path.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 232. Betere is þe þet troddeð wel & ofsecheð wel ut his owune feblesce þen he þet meteð hu heih is þe heouene.
1619. Sir J. Sempil, Sacrilege Handled, App. 49. To trode Tithes then vp as neare as may be, euen to Adam, from the Law.
1825. Jamieson, s.v., To ‘trod a thief.’
1909. N. York Observer, 2 Sept., 316/1. Trodding to Self-Support. The Home Mission Committee of Buffalo Presbytery has set itself earnestly to the task of bringing its dependent churches to self-support.
