pedal

Plural: pedals

Noun

• a sustained bass note
• a lever that is operated with the foot
• A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
• an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
• An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
• A stirrup.
• The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.

Verb

Verb Forms: pedaled, pedaling, pedals, pedalled, pedalling

• To operate a mechanism using foot levers.
• ride a bicycle
• operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument
• To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
• To operate a bicycle.

Adjective

• of or relating to the feet
  • "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'"

Adj

• Of or relating to the foot.

Examples

• A piano usually has two or three pedals.
• A small organ commonly has only one or two ranks on the pedal.
• He had to pedal hard on his mental gears to find a seven-letter word on the challenging board.
• He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.
• the pedal of a loom
• There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
• to pedal one's loom

Synonyms

bicycle, bike, cycle, foot lever, foot pedal, pedal point, treadle, wheel

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