thridden

Verb

thread (third-person singular simple present threads, present participle threading, simple past threaded or (archaic) thrid, past participle threaded or (archaic) thrid or (archaic) thridden)

1. (transitive) To pass a thread through the eye of a needle.
2. (transitive) To fix (beads, pearls, etc.) upon a thread that is passed through; to string.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To make one's way through or between (a constriction or obstacles).
   • to thread through narrow passages
   1. (figuratively, transitive) To cautiously make (one's way) through a precarious place or situation.
      • He threaded his way through legal entanglements.
4. (figuratively, transitive) To pass through; to pierce through; to penetrate.
   • And when the Miners by theſe Shafts or Adits do ſtrike or threed a Vein of any Metal […] then the Metal which is digged […] is called Oar […]1670, John Pettus, Fodinæ Regales […], London: Printed by H. L. and R. B. […], page 2
5. (transitive) To interweave as if with thread; to intersperse.
   • [...] the urban landscape threaded with parks and trees to the horizon. The enormous sky over that flat line dazzled clear blue or filled with towers of cumulus clouds.2010 April 1, Gayla Marty, Memory of Trees: A Daughter’s Story of a Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 177

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