Usually means: Pedal powering a machine manually.
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  1. treadle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. treadle: Merriam-Webster
  3. treadle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. treadle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. treadle: Vocabulary.com
  6. treadle: Wordnik
  7. treadle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. treadle: Wiktionary
  9. treadle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. treadle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. treadle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. treadle: Dictionary.com
  13. treadle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Treadle (railway), Treadle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Treadle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. treadle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. treadle: Rhymezone
  18. Treadle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. treadle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. treadle: FreeDictionary.org
  21. treadle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. treadle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treadle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. treadle (v.): Cats

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates motion.
noun:  A device actuated by wheels passing over it.
noun:  (biology) Chalaza.
verb:  (intransitive) To use a treadle.

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