treadle
- n a lever that is operated with the foot
- v tread over
the brick maker treadles over clay to pick out the stones - v operate (machinery) by a treadle
- The Russian offer was little more than a tempting bit of cheese on the treadle of a Communist trap.
- In some poor nations like Bangladesh, human-powered irrigation devices, such as treadle pumps, are becoming commonplace.
- It announced that a pilot named Duennbeil had shot his glider into the air with a rubber cable, pumped feverishly at a bicycle-like treadle, flown a yard off the ground for some .