foot pedal

Questions about foot pedal

What does foot pedal mean?

foot pedal means "a lever that is operated with the foot".

What is another word for foot pedal?

Close synonyms include pedal, treadle, foot lever. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foot pedal a common word?

foot pedal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.