Usually means: Lever operated by foot movement.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word pedal:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pedal: Merriam-Webster
  3. pedal, pedal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pedal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pedal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pedal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pedal, pedal: Wordnik
  8. pedal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pedal, Pedal, Pedal: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. pedal: Wiktionary
  11. pedal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. pedal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. pedal: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. pedal: Dictionary.com
  15. pedal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. pedal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Pedal (piano), Pedal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Pedal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. pedal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. pedal: Rhymezone
  21. Pedal (nt), pedal, pedal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. pedal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. pedal: FreeDictionary.org
  24. pedal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pedal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PEDAL: Band Terms
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -pedal: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedal: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. -pedal, pedal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PEDAL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. pedal: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pedal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedal: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pedal: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pedal: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See pedaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
noun:  (medicine) an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
noun:  (music) An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
noun:  (equestrianism, humorous) A stirrup.
noun:  (music) The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
verb:  To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
verb:  (intransitive) To operate a bicycle.
adjective:  Of or relating to the foot.

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