trode

1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of tread

   wilds […] no human had ever trode before. (III, ix)

   1794, Ann Radcliffe, Mysteries of Udolpho

   1 more example

   His broad clear brow in sunlight glowed. / On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode.

   1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part the third, page 14

1. obsoleteTread; footing.

   Fruitfull of all thinges fitt for living foode , But wholy waste and void of peoples trode

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms: troad

plural trodes

1. abbreviationclippingClipping of electrode.

   Routine now: trodes, jack, and flip.

   1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 65