| pedal | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. pedal, pedal point | a sustained bass note. |
| ~ musical note, note, tone | a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound.; "the singer held the note too long" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. foot lever, foot pedal, pedal, treadle | a lever that is operated with the foot. |
| ~ accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, throttle, gas, gun | a pedal that controls the throttle valve.; "he stepped on the gas" |
| ~ bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals. |
| ~ brake pedal | foot pedal that moves a piston in the master brake cylinder. |
| ~ clutch pedal, clutch | a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism.; "he smoothely released the clutch with one foot and stepped on the gas with the other" |
| ~ lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum. |
| ~ automotive vehicle, motor vehicle | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails. |
| ~ pipe organ, organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard. |
| ~ soft pedal | a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound. |
| ~ loud pedal, sustaining pedal | a pedal on a piano that lifts the dampers from the strings and so allows them to continue vibrating. |
| v. (motion) | 3. bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal, wheel | ride a bicycle. |
| ~ unicycle | ride a unicycle. |
| ~ backpedal | pedal backwards on a bicycle. |
| ~ ride | be carried or travel on or in a vehicle.; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" |
| v. (creation) | 4. pedal | operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument. |
| ~ music | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.).; "his music was his central interest" |
| ~ control, operate | handle and cause to function.; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever" |
| ~ spiel, play | replay (as a melody).; "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully" |
| adj. (pertain) | 5. pedal | of or relating to the feet.; "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'" |
| treadle | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. treadle | tread over.; "the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones" |
| ~ trample, tread | tread or stomp heavily or roughly.; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" |
| v. (contact) | 2. treadle | operate (machinery) by a treadle. |
| ~ control, operate | handle and cause to function.; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever" |
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