pedipulation

Dexterous manipulation of objects using the feet.

It is a rather amusing sight to see the native and his "lubra," or wife. . . . [T]heir remarkable power of pedipulation is a serviceable agent to them, for any small article which excites their cupidity they can take up with the toe, pass it up the back, and then conceal it in the girdle.

We understand that this clutch can be slipped to the uttermost by pedipulation.

An instance of such manipulation.

At their turning-lathes, they employ their toes to guide the chisel; and, in these pedipulations, shew to Europeans a diverting degree of address.

He had put his feet out on the floor and was feeling for his slippers with blind pedipulations.