pedal: Meaning and Definition of

ped•al

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.
1. a foot-operated keyboard, as on an organ or harpsichord.
2. any of the keys of such a keyboard.
3. Seepedal point.

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

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

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