Anything you push with your feet to control a machine, vehicle, or instrument is a pedal. When you use a sewing machine is figuring out how hard to push the pedal with your foot to make the needle move up and down.
The controls on the floor of your car are also pedals, and if you put the pedal to the metal, it means you press as hard as you can on the gas pedal or accelerator. Watch out for petal, the part of a flower, and peddle, the act of selling things, which sound the same as pedal.
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a lever that is operated with the foot
ride a bicycle
of or relating to the feet
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a sustained bass note
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