Treader
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who treads.
- 2 A bicycle. Oxford, UK, slang
"Why, he weren’t no more’n knocked offen his treader. An’ now he’ve rid off home on it!"
Example
More examples"Behold the days come saith the LORD that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed and the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt."
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”)).