pedal stool
nounEtymology
Mishearing owing to homeophony (compare pedestal: pĕʹdəstəl with pedal stool: pĕʹdəl.sto͞ol).
Definitions
A stool with vertical foot levers that attach to the pedals of a piano, organ, or similar…
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.
- The sound-post of this instrument “extended above the ridge of heaven, while the pedal-stool was beneath hell.”
malapropism of pedestal.
- ‘I looked up to him, you know. I put him on a pedal stool.’
- They retire and get put up on a pedal-stool by there fans.
- “It is unwise for auterists to put auteurs on a pedal stool above nonauteurs.”
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA