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pedal

32 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) pedal (noun)
  2. 2) pedal (adjective)
  3. 3) pedal (verb)
  4. pedal board (noun)
  5. pedal boat (noun)
  6. pedal bone (noun)
  7. pedal clarinet (noun)
  8. pedal coupler (noun)
  9. pedal disk (noun)
  10. pedal ganglion (noun)
  11. pedal gland (noun)
  12. pedal key (noun)
  13. pedal keyboard (noun)
  14. pedal-note (noun)
  15. pedal organ (noun)
  16. pedal piano (noun)
  17. pedal point (noun)
  18. pedal pushers (noun plural)
  19. pedal steel (noun)
  20. augmented pedal (noun)
  21. crescendo pedal (noun)
  22. damper pedal (noun)
  23. double pedal point (noun)
  24. loud pedal (noun)
  25. rattrap pedal (noun)
  26. shifting pedal (noun)
  27. soft pedal (noun)
  28. soft-pedal (verb)
  29. sostenuto pedal (noun)
  30. sustaining pedal (noun)

1ped·al

noun \ˈpe-dəl\

Definition of PEDAL

1
: a lever pressed by the foot in the playing of a musical instrument (as an organ or piano)
2
: a foot lever or treadle by which a part is activated in a mechanism
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Origin of PEDAL

Middle French pedale, from Italian, from Latin pedalis, adjective
First Known Use: 1618

Rhymes with PEDAL

heddle, medal, meddle, peddle, treadle

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