2. Verb. (third-person singular of tripod) ¹
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Definition of Tripods
1. tripod [n] - See also: tripod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tripods
Literary usage of Tripods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"These tripods were set up as public monuments on pillars or other structures.
A street in Athens which contained a great number of such monuments was called ..."
2. Gurley Manual of Surveying Instruments by Gurley, W. & L. E., Troy, N.Y. (1895)
"tripods. TN THE tripods of all our instruments the upper part of the leg is ...
The legs of all our tripods are about four feet eight inches long from head ..."
3. The Ancient History of the Egyptians: Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1774)
"Nine Delphic tripods of gold appeared next, having fix feet in their altitude;
and there were fix others, nine feet in height. ..."
4. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie, Cady Staley (1887)
"tripods. These consist of three legs, shod with iron, and connected by joints at
... Extension tripods are manufactured which provide for lengthening and ..."
5. Letters on natural magic by David Brewster (1883)
"Mechanical automata of the ancients—Moving tripods—Automata of I );<:< la! ...
The tripods which Homer * mentions as having been constructed by Vulcan for ..."
6. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"The castings were chiefly in open work, and were attached to r Feet of tripods
in bronze and iron (after Layard). the furniture which they ornamented by ..."
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