单词 | overtread |
释义 | overtreadn. rare. The action of treading over or stepping beyond something; an instance of this. overtread plough n. Agriculture (now historical) = over-treading plough n. at over-treading n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > foot-plough foot plough1625 swing plough1733 overtread plougha1843 over-treading plough1893 a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1850) 3rd Ser. 748/1 The land before his time having been tilled only with a mattock and overtread plough. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 54 Their forelegs drumsticked without crooks, Straight, without overtread or bend, Muscled to gallop to the end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overtreadv. Now rare. 1. transitive. To tread over; to trample under foot. Also figurative: to crush, oppress, subdue. Now chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > suppress, repress, or put down nithereOE adweschOE overtreadOE quellOE to trample or tread under foot (also feet)c1175 adauntc1325 to bear downc1330 oppressc1380 repressc1391 overyoke?a1425 quencha1425 to bear overc1425 supprisec1440 overquell?c1450 farec1460 supprime1490 downbeara1500 stanch1513 undertread1525 downtread1536 suppress1537 to set one's foot on the neck of1557 depress?a1562 overbear1565 surpress1573 trample1583 repose1663 spiflicate1749 sort1815 to trample down1853 to sit on ——1915 to clamp down1924 crack down1940 tamp1959 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > downwards > trample treadc825 overtreadOE to tread down, under foot, in the mire, to the ground, to piecesc1175 defoulc1290 foil13.. to-treada1382 foula1400 fulyie1488 overgo1488 trample1530 tramp1533 conculcate1570 trample1577 overtrample1589 tramp1596 inculcate1598 stramplea1610 calcate1623 scrunch1861 OE tr. Titles to Psychomachia of Prudentius (Cleo.) ix, in Zeitschr. f. Deutsches Alterthum (1876) 20 37 Fides conculcat idolatriam : her se geleafa ofertret þæt deofolgyld. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12493 Þær þurrh þe laferrd overrcomm. & oferrtradd te deofell. c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 201 (MED) J..sette me to wrastle with him for to venquishe him and ouertrede [Fr. sousmarchier] him. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 168 (MED) Traiane his Sonne rode an hors vndauntdid, that ouer-trade a weddowes Sone in the strete. 1534 J. Heywood Play of Loue 1283 What though the profyte may lyghtly be lodn, It greveth a man to be over trodyn. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. Bv When wrong triumphes, and right is ouertrodde. 1630 J. Taylor Bk. Martyrs , in Wks. ii. 140 In a word, they thus were ouer-trod, Because they truly seru'd the liuing God. 1875 A. Cambridge Recollection in Manor House & Other Poems 149 Slip backward to the world that lies behind me, Ever by sinful footsteps overtrod. 1893 ‘M. Field’ Underneath Bough 6 My brave heart can overtread Her brood of hopes, her infant dead. 1931 G. Murray tr. Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 37 So fierce shall Typhon hurl, in days to be, His wrath and hail fire-scattering, though o'ertrod And blasted by the levin-bolt of God. 2. transitive. To step beyond; to overstep. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > move beyond > step beyond overstride1614 overtreadc1620 c1620 How Good in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1848) 99 Yet must we not this circle overtread. 1999 Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (Nexis) 3 Dec. c1 He helped out without ever overtreading the line between assistant and head coach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1843v.OE |
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