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pedal-stool

pedal-stool is the alternative form of pedal stool.

Meaning of pedal stool

Noun (1)

pedal stool (plural pedal stools)

  1. A stool with vertical foot levers that attach to the pedals of a piano, organ, or similar instrument, thereby assisting children and other players who cannot reach the pedals normally.
    • A pedal-stool having an opening in its rear side to clear the piano-pedals.1904, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, CXII:ii, page 1,878

Noun (2)

pedal stool

  1. (nonstandard) malapropism of pedestal.
    • ‘I looked up to him, you know. I put him on a pedal stool.’1993, Rory MacLean, Stalin’s Nose, page 210

Forms of pedal-stool

pluralpedal-stools

Questions about pedal-stool

What is pedal-stool the alternative form of?
Pedal-stool is the alternative form of pedal stool.

Words near pedal-stool in the dictionary

  1. pedal stroke
  2. pedal strokes
  3. pedal to the metal
  4. pedal-pusher
  5. pedal-pushers
  6. pedal-stool
  7. pedal-stools
  8. pedalavia
  9. pedalavium
  10. pedalboard
  11. pedalboarding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pedal-stool (page history and authors); pedal stool (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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