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pedipulation en · NOUN

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1. (rare, uncountable, usually) Dexterous manipulation of objects using the feet.
   • We understand that this clutch can be slipped to the uttermost by pedipulation. 1908, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar: A Journal Published in the Interests of the Mechanically Propelled Road Carriage, volume 20, page 306:
   • A completely stepwise online pedipulation planning method is proposed . . . based on the general solution of the equation of motion of an approximate dynamical biped model whose mass is concentrated at the center of mass. 2009, T. Sugihara, Y. Nakamura, “Boundary Condition Relaxation Method for Stepwise Pedipulation Planning of Biped Robots”, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, volume 25, number 3:
   • If ever they attempt a revival of their trade, they would do well to photograph beauties in shorts pumping away, with the unmistakable inference that such pulchritude and shapeliness were the results of diligent pedipulation of the player piano. 1944 March 1, Walter Monfried, “The Player Piano Is a Dead as Salt Mackerel, They Say, but Wait”, in The Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 23 Sep 2013:
   • It is a rather amusing sight to see the native and his "lubra," or wife. . . . [T]heir remarkable power of pedipulation is a serviceable agent to them, for any small article which excites their cupidity they can take up with the toe, pass it up the back, and then conceal it in the girdle. 1853 Jan. to June, "Notes upon Australia," The British Journal, p. 315 (Google preview)
2. (countable, rare, usually) An instance of such manipulation.
   • At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address. 1813, “Customs, Manners, and present Appearance of Constantinople”, in The New Annual Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature for the year 1812, page 179:
   • He had put his feet out on the floor and was feeling for his slippers with blind pedipulations. 1976, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 51, page 95:

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