treader
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 7
Definition of treader
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- One who treads.
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noun
- One who treads.
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(Oxford, UK, slang)A bicycle.
“Why, he weren’t no more’n knocked offen his treader. An’ now he’ve rid off home on it!”
“The Royal Academy has just two orange hoops on to which four early-bird visitors can chain their treaders. It is left to the railings outside for the rest.”
“He set off from Oxford on a standard old "treader" bike, often at night – navigating by the stars and napping under a hedge if got^([sic]) tired on his way to Holt.”
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Etymology
From Middle English tredere, equivalent to tread + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch treder (“treader”), Middle Low German trēdære, trēder (“treader, bellows kicker”), Middle High German tretære, treter (“treader”) (whence German Treter (“old shoe, footballer”)).
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