Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913 Trode Trode (trōd), archaic imp. of Tread. On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. Tennyson. Trode, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See Tread.] Tread; footing. [Written also troad.][Obs.] Spenser. ‹ Trodden Troglodyte ›