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Antonyms for pedalled

Grammar : Verb
Spell : ped-l or for 6–8, peed-l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛd l or for 6–8, ˈpid l

Definition of pedalled

Origin :
  • 1610s, "lever (on an organ) worked by foot," from French pédale "feet, trick with the feet," from Italian pedale "treadle, pedal," from Late Latin pedale "(thing) of the foot," neuter of Latin pedalis "of the foot," from pes (genitive pedis) "foot" (see foot (n.)).
  • Extended to various mechanical contrivances by 1789. Pedal steel guitar is from 1969. Pedal-pushers "type of women's trousers suitable for bicycling" is from 1944.
  • When college girls took to riding bicycles in slacks, they first rolled up one trouser leg, then rolled up both. This whimsy has now produced a trim variety of long shorts, called "pedal pushers." ["Life," Aug. 28, 1944]
  • As in play : verb produce music
  • As in bike : verb to bicycle
Example sentences :
  • Dick, in his eagerness to reach me, pedalled all the way down.
  • Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1905. » by Various
  • Before anything more could be said, Miss Ffolliott pedalled away.
  • Extract from : « Friendship and Folly » by Maria Louise Pool
  • The boys were tossing a baseball to each other as Tom pedalled up on his wheel.
  • Extract from : « The Major » by Ralph Connor
  • Mr. Hoopdriver pedalled convulsively, intending to pass her.
  • Extract from : « The Wheels of Chance » by H. G. Wells
  • He pedalled with ill-suppressed anger, and his head was going down.
  • Extract from : « The Wheels of Chance » by H. G. Wells
  • But he turned his head aside and pedalled past me deliberately.
  • Extract from : « Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Frank Harris
  • Rather puzzled at the non-appearance of Acton, they kept the first-comer well in view as he pedalled hard for Westcote.
  • Extract from : « Acton's Feud » by Frederick Swainson
  • A boy on a bicycle, loaded with four paper bonnet-boxes, pedalled towards us, out of an alley on our right.
  • Extract from : « A Diversity of Creatures » by Rudyard Kipling
  • My spirit was roused now— I pedalled with a will; if I rode all day I would not let him go past me.
  • Extract from : « Miss Cayley's Adventures » by Grant Allen
  • With a laugh and a cheery adieu the officer bade me good luck and pedalled off.
  • Extract from : « How I Filmed the War » by Lieut. Geoffrey H. Malins

Synonyms for pedalled

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