pedestrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedestrials
Etymology: From Latin pedester, -esteris, from pes, pedis (“a foot”). Compare French pédestere. See pedal and pedestrian.
Senses: examples: text: The benches on which pupils sit at these desks , as well as all benches in such houses are high and backless , consequently no soundings for feet, so that we see a swinging of pedestrials at once ridiculous and painful to behold.
ref: 1857, Pennsylvania. Department of Public Instruction, Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, page 122:
text: Gathering myself on my pedestrials as quick as possible, I beheld our favorite old pet sow retreating in an opposite direction.
ref: 1858, Yankee-notions - Volume 7, page 322:
text: He is in love with one of those dreamy-eyed, perky, lovable misses who wear elevator heels and who seem to caress the foot path with their dainty pedestrials when they sweep past Marshall Field's.
ref: 1904 July 21, “Audacities”, in The Club-fellow: The Society Journal of New York and Chicago, volume 6, number 2, page 11:
text: Very rarely does a man get a new set of personal pedestrials, he said.
ref: 2014, Brian Doyle, The Plover, page 265:
glosses: Foot.
examples: text: The duty which drivers of motor vehicles owe to pedestrials at street crossings is one which should be deeply impressed upon all drivers of automobiles and other motor vehicles in this state, if need be, by a strict, vigorous, enforcement of the law.
ref: 1930, Alexander Contee Magruder, Oliver Miller, Maryland Reports, Containing Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland; Volume 159, page 113:
text: Rating scales for drivers may be obtained, and safety and courtesy as practiced by cyclists and pedestrials discussed.
ref: 1946, Cincinnati Public Schools. Department of Instruction, Physiology and Health, page 38:
text: This kind of surface will deter both vehicles and pedestrials, and at the same time require a minimum of maintenance.
ref: 1969, Northern Ireland. Ministry of Development, Landscape Aspects of Road Design, page 9:
text: The danger of automobile accidents and personal injuries to occupants and pedestrials is not a fiction but a fact on Bayview Avenue with statistical support.
ref: 1969, Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division:
text: Sidewalk practitioners, on the other hand, who sit near street corners and other places where passing pedestrials may consult them, normally receive but a small fraction of the fees obtained by their better established colleagues.
ref: 1990, Dawnhee Yim Janelli, Logical Contradictions in Korean Learned Fortunetelling, page 22:
glosses: Pedestrian; person traveling on foot.
examples: text: They also manufacture all kinds of Marble work, as Mantles, Centre and Pier Tops, Counters, Facings, Hearths, Soda Founts, Urns, Pedestrials, etc., and give early and careful attention also to all orders for Monuments, Tombs and Head Stones, which they make in best style.
ref: 1847, United States. Works Administration, Ohio, Annals of Cleveland--1818-1935, page 108:
text: As a way of minimising the costs of replacing the destroyed signposts, the system of using signposts was discontinued and Stone pedestrials were erected.
ref: 1974, Tanzania Antiquities Department, Annual Report of the Antiquities Department, page 8:
text: If outbound and incoming light are spectrally closely spaced, care of the pedestrials of the filters used for separation has to be taken.
ref: 2005, Network Architectures, Management, and Applications:
glosses: A pedestal or short column.