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Treadle   Listen
Treadle

noun
1.
A lever that is operated with the foot.  Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal.





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"Treadle" Quotes from Famous Books



... mingle in a confused manner with her dreams, she could not say; but now she heard it plainly enough, and recognized what it was—the peculiar, grating hiss of a grindstone, punctuated every now and then with a subdued little squeak made by the treadle. ...
— Under Padlock and Seal • Charles Harold Avery
... passengers on to the island. The arm of the river (named the Dead Arm) upon which this refreshment wharf lay, appeared asleep, so feeble was the current. Fleets of yawls, of skiffs, of canoes, of podoscaphs (a light boat propelled by wheels set in motion by a treadle), of gigs, of craft of all forms and of all kinds, crept about upon the motionless stream, crossing each other, intermingling, running foul of one another, stopping abruptly under a jerk of the arms to shoot off afresh under a sudden ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume IV (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant


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