Do we say pedal or peddle

pedal 152 occurrences

The pedal members of the old English barons were of a peculiar aristocratic conformation, and lasts were made expressly for them.

By ingeniously scattering the notes of a chord over the keyboard while holding down the pedal, he practically gave the player three or four hands, and greatly enlarged the harmonic and coloristic possibilities of the pianoforte.

780. mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike^, gavelock^, jemmy^, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan &c (lift) 307; wheel &c (rotation) 312; inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald^, heddle^, jenny, parbuckle^, sprag^, water wheel.

Once or twice tired, dirty stragglers, lying at the roadside, raised a cheer as they recognized the small American flag that fluttered from our taxi's door; and once we gave a lift to a Belgian bicycle courier, who had grown too leg-weary to pedal his machine another inch.

The only thing now to be done was to send for old Mr. Andrews and his wife; and, in the meantime, the pedal was bidden to Booby Hall to tell the whole story again.

His mood brightened, and he floored the gas pedal.

150.EFFECTS OF PERIOSTITIS ON THE PEDAL AND NAVICULAR BONES.

The case, in fact, became a typical one of so-called "buttress foot," which my friend Mr. Willis has described as diagnostic of disease of the pyramidal process of the pedal bone.

On removing the bones from the hoof the rest of the bone was quite normal, as was the pedal bone.

It is only fair to suppose that such changes occur also in the pedal articulation.

We ourselves, too, have seen two cases where suppuration of the pedal articulation occurred in the septic pyæmia of foals, a disease known commonly as 'joint-ill,' and characterized by an infected state of the circulation.

Extreme and forcible flexion of the corono-pedal articulation also sometimes gives evidence of tenderness.

It is a four-manual and pedal instrument and has fifty-three stops.

At 109th Street a bicycle officer stared in amazement at the dwindling number beneath the rear axle, then ducked his head and began to pedal.

Kissing should be done upon the soft pedal mon ami, adagio, con amore.

"Now the soft-pedal on slush, eh, Rafaelito?...

Motion is communicated to it by a double pedal, which actuates a connecting rod and a system of pulleys.

Using the damper pedal.

Using the damper pedal.

YON, PIETRO A. Organ pedal technic; incorporating the fundamental principles of brilliant pedal playing.

YON, PIETRO A. Organ pedal technic; incorporating the fundamental principles of brilliant pedal playing.

Doc always was a pretty noisy preacher, but he began work on that head with soft-pedal-tremolo-stop preaching and wound up with a peroration like a steamboat explosion.

I called Leon and pulling out a card, told him to pedal back and dig out a bottle of champagne I had hidden in our hay cart, and to present it to our soldier friends as a bracer and a souvenir.

" I looked down, and near the floor was a brass pedal, like that of a piano.

Now, the pedal of my piano works hard, so I bent all my strength to this one, and lo!

peddle 31 occurrences

Listen: To-morrow and Friday you take that 'sandwich and coffee' run at the stables" referring to the concession to peddle lunch stuff among the horsemen who seldom left their charges, a concession which Sabota, with other privileges, had purchased the right to operate.

I peddle writing paper, pens, pins, needles and notions," he added, motioning to his pack.

I peddle around here a lot.

I says all ri' old top, if you look at it that way I guess I can bear up through the heat of the day without your assistance, an' if it's just the same to you I will toddle ri' along and peddle my matches.

But kings and princes and bishops and abbots were getting tired of this everlasting drain of money to Rome, in the shape of annats and taxes; so Leo revived an old custom of the Dark Ages,he would sell indulgences for sin; and he sent his agents to peddle them in every country.

"I've been told that a long, long time ago the wolves from Sonfjället are supposed to have waylaid a man who had gone out to peddle his wares," began Bataki.

Just as it is one man's business to manufacture watches, and another man's business to peddle shoe-strings, so it was Mr. Campbell's business to know things.

He would peddle his play; she would honour the publisher with a visit.

Suppose you stay home, and let me peddle the play.

Then he began a campaign to peddle them.

I'm not very anxious to peddle things."

Come, leave all the doctors; resort to the shops Which peddle pills, balsams, elixirs and drops; Each cures ev'ry malady whenever used, Altho' by base slander they're greatly abus'd.

They rivet, they forge, they coin, they "fire up," "brake up," "switch off," "prospect," "shin" for us when we are "short," "post up" our books, and finally ourselves, "strike a lead," "follow a trail," "stand up to the rack," "dicker," "swap," and "peddle."

Next year with 170 men in four ships Hawkins again captured as many Sierra Leone natives as he could carry, and proceeded to peddle them in the Spanish islands.

He was a fellow that used to peddle around in all that country before the War.

You keep puttin' the twisted cotton in the loom and step on the peddle and no sooner than done, that was worked in a rope.

A visit to London in the season, a visit to the seaside, and then home in the autumn to peddle about the estate, made up the year when they did not go abroad.

Of course it Grieved him to be compelled to Peddle such Stories, but he had to do it in the Interests of Morality.

No one disputes this, and it is your business to prove that the nostrum you peddle is religion.

"Give him that stinking stuff to peddle, Skinner, and if you can dig up a couple of dozen carloads of red fir or bull pine in transit, or some short or odd-length stock, or some larch ceiling or flooring, or some hemlock random stockin fact, anything the trade doesn't want as a giftyou get me, don't you, Skinner?" Mr. Skinner smiled his swordfish smile.

After being in Jacksonville a short while Claude began to peddle ginger bread and apples in a little basket, selling most of his wares to the colored soldiers.

Danny had been trained by his jocker, an ugly ex-convict, who on account of his ape-like face had been dubbed "Jocko", to peddle needle cases from house to house.

If needle cases can not be had, sticking plaster, aluminum thimbles, pencils, shoestrings and other such articles are given to the road kids to peddle.

So quickly had these rum-soaked, heartless monsters converted an absolutely harmless lad into a criminal, that Jim pleaded with Kansas Shorty to permit him to try unassisted to peddle needle cases.

"Jim, Jim," he could distinctly hear the scoundrel say mocking him in his helplessness, "come on, Jim, let us go and peddle needle cases and loot more houses."

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