WordNet
n. a lever that is operated with the foot [syn: pedal, treadle, foot pedal]
Usage examples of "foot lever".
The barge's interior was empty except for the drive train, the controlsa six-foot lever, now in neutral, which could be thrown into forward or reverse positionsand metal ladders welded to both sloping ends.
It took me two false starts before I either remembered, and was not aware of it, or lit by chance on the proper combination of two buttons in the chair arms, plus a foot lever.
This eighteen-foot lever enabled a rowed whaleboat to spin around in its own length, but it was not so effective in guiding a sailboat, and re.
And Worsel's lethal chain, driven irresistibly at the end of the twenty-five-foot lever of his free length of body, clanked, hummed, and snarled its way through reptilian flesh.
His goat's-foot lever lay nearby, along with a heavy armor-piercing quarrel.
Fritha dropped the bow forward, thrust his foot into the stirrup, jerked over the goat's foot lever, dropped a second quarrel into place.
A foot lever pushed something or other that would stop the rope unwinding too suddenly.