Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Trode \Trode\, archaic
   imp. of {Tread}.

         On burnished hooves his war-horse trode. --Tennyson.

Trode \Trode\, n. [AS. trod, fr. tredan to tread. See {Tread}.]
   Tread; footing. [Written also {troad}.][Obs.] --Spenser.