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What (who) is pedal - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Pedals; Foot pedal; Pedalling; Pedal (music); Pedals (album); Pedal (disambiguation)
pedal
n.
1) to depress, step on a pedal
2) a brake; clutch; gas (AE) pedal
Pedal
·adj A pedal curve or surface.
II. Pedal ·adj Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.
III. Pedal ·adj Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
IV. Pedal ·adj A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.
pedal
(pedals, pedalling, pedalled)
Note: in AM, use 'pedaling', 'pedaled'
1.
The pedals on a bicycle are the two parts that you push with your feet in order to make the bicycle move.
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2.
When you pedal a bicycle, you push the pedals around with your feet to make it move.
She climbed on her bike with a feeling of pride and pedalled the five miles home...
She was too tired to pedal back.
VERB: V n, V adv/prep
3.
A pedal in a car or on a machine is a lever that you press with your foot in order to control the car or machine.
...the brake or accelerator pedals.
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Wikipedia
Pedal
A pedal (from the Latin pes pedis, "foot") is a lever designed to be operated by foot and may refer to:
Examples of use of pedal
1. Pedal–powered tri–shaws cruised the streets looking for customers.
2. A handful of pedal–pushing lunatics persist, however.
3. Agencies Beijing: Hopefuls for China‘s Olympic mountain biking team got a chance to go pedal–to–pedal against US President George W.
4. Investigators concluded the bullet struck a control pedal, he said.
5. She‘s lost her bicycle in the Amsterdam Central train station‘s high–rise bike lot, where 2,500 two–wheelers are crammed pedal–to–pedal, handlebar–to–handlebar on five soaring levels.