pedally
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By means of the foot.
adv
On or in the foot.
adv
Concerning the properties of the foot
adv
Pertaining to the rhythm of a poem, especially as concerns the stress given to syllables.
Example Sentences
- "For producing this "velocity of motion" we have a peculiar advantage, in having a double energy always at command, as half our crew are at rest always in the ordinary course of things, which, on particular emergencies, as in the instance of being chased by an enemy, may prove the salvation of the ship, cargo, and crew: not only may the whole muscular power of the crew be employed mechanically, in waorking the wheels of hydraulic engines ; but the different sets of muscles belonging to each man may be alternately employed and relieved by working them both pedally and manually, through the means of cranks, winces, and ropes."
- "If the object in question moves on the land, one needs to decide if the movement is done pedally, or non-pedally (pedally/non-ped.)."
- "The suspended subject immediately gripped the new support pedally and moved atop it."
- "During emersion, lower eulittoral species remain pedally attached and thus have elevated evaporative water-loss rates."
- "As a band, we used whatever we needed—keyboard samples, background vocal effects, string parts, whatever. The line we drew was that they were all samples ofus, and every note, or every “event,” had to be triggered manually (or pedally, as the case might be) by one of us."
- "Incompetent deep veins lead to a reflux of blood pedally with the resultant dilation of distal veins, which itself causes valvular incompetence, setting up a vicious cycle."
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Inflected Forms
more pedally (comparative)
most pedally (superlative)