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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A pedal or lever operated by the foot for circular drive, as in a potter's wheel or sewing machine.
  2. v. To work a treadle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A lever designed to be moved by the foot to impart motion to a machine, as a lathe, sewing-machine, or bicycle. It consists usually of a form of lever connected by a rod with a crank; but other forms employ straps or cords for transmitting the power. In the bicycle the treadle is practically the crank itself. In the organ, particularly the pipe-organ, and many machines, the drop press, etc., where the treadle does not impart a rotary motion, but only starts, stops, or otherwise controls the machine or instrument, it is more properly a pedal, but in the reed-organ the foot-levers by which the feeders are operated are called either treadles or pedals. See cuts under pegger, potter, reed-organ, ripple, sewing-machine, and spring-hammer.
  2. n. The tough ropy or stringy part of the white of an egg; the chalaza: so called because formerly supposed to be the male sperm. Compare tread, 4.
  3. To operate a treadle; specifically, in playing a reed-organ, to operate the feeders by means of the foot-levers or pedals.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A foot-operated pedal or lever that generates circular motion.
  2. v. To use a treadle.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
  2. n. (Biol.) The chalaza of a bird's egg; the tread.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a lever that is operated with the foot
  2. v. tread over
  3. v. operate (machinery) by a treadle

Etymologies

  1. Middle English tredel, from Old English, step of a stair, from tredan, to tread. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. level

hypernyms (4)

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  1. trample
  1. tread
  1. control
  1. operate

same context (23)

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  2. mince-meat
  3. racketing
  4. well-spread
  1. addle
  2. placidly
  3. acylation
  4. over-and-over
  1. swing-door
  2. thump-thump
  3. bedsprings
  4. jounce
  1. cider press
  2. teenage
  3. rope ladder
  4. anticoagulation
  1. band saw
  2. eye-rolling
  3. pois
  4. wheel-chair
  1. dual-cpu
  2. tippy
  3. attainder

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. grip-pedal
  2. tredle
  3. treddle
  4. harp-pedal
  5. tread
  6. foot bellows
  7. foot hammer
  8. foot press
  1. foot vise
  2. foot lathe
  3. chalaza
  4. dolly-pedal
  5. foot-brake
  6. foot-lever
  7. treadle-press
  8. treadle
  1. treadle-machine
  2. treadler
  3. turning-engine
  4. welt-cutter
  5. pullet-sperm
  6. stabbing-machine
  7. gallature
  8. crank-hook
  1. foot-lathe
  2. foot-press
  3. foot-vise
  4. fretsaw
  5. grando
  6. grinding-lathe
  7. lift-hammer
  8. footboard
  1. potter's wheel
  2. pedal
  3. pedomotive
  4. pole lathe
  5. pullet sperm
  6. spinning wheel
  7. grindstone
  8. kick
  1. lever-press
  2. pedomotor
  3. sewing-table
  4. table-saw

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