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pedal stool en · NOUN · etymology 1
Etymology
pedal + stool
Meanings
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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.
The sound-post of this instrument “extended above the ridge of heaven, while the pedal-stool was beneath hell.”
1998, David Nicholls, The Whole World of Music, page 22: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:
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pedal stool en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
Mishearing owing to homeophony (compare pedestal: pĕʹdəstəl with pedal stool: pĕʹdəl.sto͞ol).
Meanings
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(nonstandard) malapropism of pedestal.
“My father was always good to my Mother. He put her on a pedal stool and never brought her down.”
2010, Candice Payne-Dennie, Pretty, Never Saved Me No Pain, page 218:2009, Clarence Bowser (AKA Tutu), Four Steps to Making a Perfect Relationship, But There’s Always One Thing Missing, chapter 13: “Turning Darkness into Rage!”
I put all my emotions on my shoulders and took the pain and places it at on a pedal stool like it was a gift from God!
He was still not one hundred percent certain that she would carry out any further threats and Luke would bounce back and return to her good books and his place on her pedal stool.
2008, Debbie Graham, The Mutts Nuts, page 140:‘I looked up to him, you know. I put him on a pedal stool.’
1993, Rory MacLean, Stalin’s Nose, page 210:Leah, holding high to her own personal beliefs took a path that would soon put her on a pedal stool upon other Christians.
2006, Thomas E. Sliwinski, The House of Thomas, III, page 5:“It is unwise for auterists to put auteurs on a pedal stool above nonauteurs.”
2002, Tribune, LXVI, page 45:The author puts women on a pedal stool.
2003, Richard Lederer, The Bride of Anguished English, page 129:“You know it’s against the rules to date the judge Juliet, our rivals will put you on a pedal stool”.
2007, Mamet, Hush Ma, page 103:They retire and get put up on a pedal-stool by there fans.
1996, Bill Crider, A Dangerous Thing, page 52:
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