pedality

The physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds.

Following the ideas of the Soil Survey Manual (Soil Survey Staff, 1951), Bullock et al. (1985) recommended to describe the grade of pedality as part of the description of microstructure. Bullock et al. (1985) and FitzPatrick (1984) based for micromorphological descriptions their grading on the only criterion visible in thin sections, namely the degree to which the aggregates are surrounded by voids. Systematic comparision of micromorphological and field descriptions revealed serious discrepancies in many cases. Specially soils with a high score for pedality in the field were not evaluated as such in thin sections (Langohr, personal communication), as pedality is not only a factor of separation.

The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.

Cloven-footednesse includes pedality.

A rusty brown coat, of antique cut, fitted closely to a long ungainly body; a pair of greasy galligaskins, which had once been gray, rand down into the capacious jaws of a long and large pair of rusty boots; these noticeable articles, from their make, must once have cased the nether extremities of a horseman in Rupert's troop, or have defended the pedalities of some old smuggler for many a long year.

Something that is associated with the foot, such as the way it is used (for locomotion or measurement) or the articles of clothing worn on it.

I was followed by my noble hostess (womewhat more, be it understood, than a middle-aged lady), who gravely sate down, and, bidding me take off my cravat, like Thomson's Musidora—"...from her leg the inverted worsted drew"— pinned it scientifically round my throat, with the comfortable assurance that it would be "no sort of good" unless applied warm from the foot. The kind lady had hardly left, when —unthankful wretch that I was!—I unpinned the pedality, and next morning restored it with my best acknowledgments of its anti-pertussian efficacy.

Changes in pedality can occur in animals due to injury, congenital defects, or behaviour.