Definitions for pedal

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pedal ped·al

Spelling: [ped-l or for 6–8, peed-l]

IPA: /ˈpɛd l or for 6–8, ˈpid l/

Pedal is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in pedal (adelp).

Definitions for pedal

noun

1. a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps.
2. a leverlike part worked by the foot to supply power in various mechanisms, as the bicycle.
3. Music. a foot-operated keyboard, as on an organ or harpsichord. any of the keys of such a keyboard. pedal point.

adjective

1. of or relating to a foot or the feet.
2. of or relating to a pedal or pedals.
3. using pedals:

verb (used with object)

1. to work the pedals of (an organ, bicycle, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to work or use the pedals, as in playing an organ or propelling a bicycle.

Origin of pedal

1605-15; (French pédale) Latin pedālis of the feet. See ped-², -al¹

Examples for pedal

I strain and push and pedal and wonder, “When will this end?”

Elizabeth saw it at a point when she could not control the pedal with her foot.

All I had to do to work miracles was press ever so lightly a pedal.

I push down on the pedal with my right leg and instead of propelling myself forward, I topple over sideways.

She got thousands of hits and inspired dozens of other women to put the pedal to the metal.

He'd pedal a few yards, then the handle bars would get away from him.

pedal line: in caterpillars: extends along the base of the feet.

When Paul Walker steps on the pedal in ‘The Fast and Furious,’ his boyish glee takes over.

"There," he said at last, getting up and barking his shin against the pedal.

This pedal sustains but does not increase the power of the sound that is produced.