† crow-treadv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To tread (a fowl) as crows or rooks were supposed to do; hence figurative to subject to ignominious treatment, abuse.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)]
tuckc888
tawc893
misbedeOE
graithc1330
to fare fair or foul with1340
misusea1382
outrayc1390
beshrewc1430
huspelc1440
misentreat1450
mistreat1453
abuse?1473
to mayne evil1481
demean1483
to put (a person) to villainya1513
harry1530
mishandle1530
touse1531
misorder1550
worrya1556
yark1565
mumble1588
buse1589
crow-tread1593
disabuse1607
maltreat1681
squeeze1691
ill-treat1794
punish1801
tousle1826
ill-use1841
razoo1890
mess1896
to play horse with1896
to bugger about1921
slug1925
to give (a person) the works1927
to kick about or around1938
mess1963
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 6 Who so forward to accuse, to debase, to reuile, to crow-treade an other?
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) 118.
Derivatives
ˈcrow-trod adj.
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a1652 R. Brome Queenes Exchange v, in Wks. (1873) III. 537 What are thou that canst look thus Piepickt, Crowtrod, or Sparrow-blasted?
ˈcrow-trodden adj.
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1600 N. Breton Pasquils Passe 22 A crauen henne that is crow trodden.
1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie iv. iv. sig. E2 O thou vile, ill-fauoured, crow-troden, pye-pecked Ront!
1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 8 Cockatrice Eggs laid by their Grandees when they had been Crow~trodden by Armies from abroad.
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