单词 | pedalist |
释义 | pedalistn. A person who operates the pedals of an organ, a bicycle, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun] > organist > player on pedals pedalist1853 1853 Times 17 Sept. 6/5 (advt.) The amateur pedalist: new organ work. Price 3s. 1894 Olean Democrat 20 July ‘Pestiferous pedalist’ is the latest English definition of cyclists. 1925 Times 21 Feb. 10/2 Mr. Paderewski thundered out Bach's fugue subject at a speed and with a clearness which the most skilful pedallist at the organ might envy. 1949 Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier 12 June 30/1 They hook small trailers to the back of bicycles, called pedicabs, where the pedalist can pull two people. 2001 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 1 Apr. 11 (caption) Travis Hugh Culley is a philosopher pedalist among Chicago's bicycle messengers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853 |
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