According to Dictionary.com, that highly reputable and authoritative source so beloved by students eager to pad their research papers, a pedicle is "a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids." I had to look this up today in order to understand a sentence in a student paper, but I'm afraid my foray into the dictionary did not, in this case, clarify the matter at all. The paper asserts that one of the "many common factors" shared by Muslims and Christians is that "they both hold their men on a high pedicle."
Maybe if it's a really big arachnid....
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