ppl. a. Frequently trodden; much used to walk on. Also fig.
1803. Observer, 25 Sept., 4/3. Mountains cultivated to their summits and interspersed with rivulets, villages, and cattle—with well trodden foot-paths crossing them in all directions.
1825. Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., 164. A smooth and well-trodden part of the road.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, II. 141. A solid, hot, stone pavement is not so agreeable … as the cool, fresh turf, or the well-trodden path.
1881. Tylor, Anthropol., xv. 387. We need not go over the well-trodden ground of later history.
