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tripod an adjustable and usually collapsible three-legged stand to which a camera, etc., can be attached to hold it steady tripod [′trī‚päd] (design engineering) An adjustable, collapsible three-legged support, as for a camera or surveying instrument. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand. How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of bones, without bethinking him of the royalty it symbolized? Gringoire, who liked noble and classical comparisons, compared him in thought to the living tripod of Vulcan. |
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