Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the keys or foot-levers that make up the pedal keyboard of an organ; a pedal-key, as distinguished from a pedal of any other sort.
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Examples
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Old wretch whose look kills! old moustache of an old theriacler! old wretch to make dead men weep! old organ-pedal! old sheath with a hundred knives! old church porch, worn out by the knees! old poor-box in which everyone has dropped.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Old wretch whose look kills! old moustache of an old theriacler! old wretch to make dead men weep! old organ-pedal! old sheath with a hundred knives! old church porch, worn out by the knees! old poor-box in which everyone has dropped.
Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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