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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To step or walk (on or across something); to trample.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To step or walk upon.
▸ verb:  (figuratively, with certain adverbs of manner) To proceed, to behave (in a certain manner).
▸ verb:  To beat or press with the feet.
▸ verb:  To work a lever, treadle, etc., with the foot or the feet.
▸ verb:  To go through or accomplish by walking, dancing, etc.
▸ verb:  To crush under the foot; to trample in contempt or hatred; to subdue; to repress.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To copulate; said of (especially male) birds.
▸ verb:  (transitive, of a male bird) To copulate with.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine
▸ noun:  A step taken with the foot.
▸ noun:  A manner of stepping.
▸ noun:  The sound made when someone or something is walking.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A way; a track or path.
▸ noun:  (construction) A walking surface in a stairway on which the foot is placed.
▸ noun:  The grooves carved into the face of a tire, used to give the tire traction.
▸ noun:  The grooves on the bottom of a shoe or other footwear, used to give grip or traction.
▸ noun:  (biology) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the treadle.
▸ noun:  The act of avian copulation in which the male bird mounts the female by standing on her back.
▸ noun:  (fortification) The top of the banquette, on which soldiers stand to fire over the parapet.
▸ noun:  A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes, or strikes its feet together.

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