treader
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.66 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who treads.
Example Sentences
- "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."
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”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tredere