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- noun Plural form of
treader .
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Examples
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Most twenty-somethings, however, are "treaders", who simply replicate the lessons of their poorer, less stable, non-voting and hands-off parents, but to worse effect.
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Traditionally, around September, one could hear the echo of the treaders in the many quintas , or wineries, that line the banks of the Douro as they sang, standing in lines with their arms locked around each others shoulders, crushing the grapes in open stone tanks.
A Nation Passing On the Port William Lyons 2011
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And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
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And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
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The men were already beaming like debauched cupid grape-treaders on a wine bar wall-panel.
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
Isaiah 16. 1999
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He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.
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He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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Sabama: I will water thee with my tears, O Hesebon, and Eleale: for the voice of the treaders hath rushed in upon thy vintage, and upon thy harvest.
frogapplause commented on the word treaders
"Most twenty-somethings, however, are "treaders", who simply replicate the lessons of their poorer, less stable, non-voting and hands-off parents, but to worse effect." Young Americans Left Out in the Rain, The Economist, January 6, 2011.
April 12, 2011