trod UK /tɹɒd/US /tɹɑd/noun 1verb 1forms 3phrases 1 noun1 •A track or pathway.In many ways this process replicates the stone trods or pannierways which date from the mediaeval period and are a feature of many parts of the North York Moors. — 2019 verb1 •To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; treadSir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason — 1813 formstrodded · trodding · trods Phrases with trod as ever trod shoe-leatherAs ever existed or lived.