Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Moved, driven, or worked by the foot or the feet acting on pedals, treadles, or the like; operated by action of the feet, as a velocipede, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Moved or worked by the action of the
foot or feet on apedal ortreadle .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
pedo- + motive
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Examples
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Lest it should be supposed that the "pedomotive" here described is the mere creature of the author's brain, it may be well to state that he has seen it in the establishment of the patentees, Messrs. Thornton and Company of Edinburgh.
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