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tripedal, a. rare.|ˈtrɪpɪdəl, ˈtraɪpɪdəl, traɪˈpiːdəl|
[ad. L. tripedāl-is, f. tri-, tri- + pēs, ped- foot: see -al1.]
†a. Having a length or extent of three feet. Obs. rare—0.
b. Having three feet, three-footed. So † tripeˈdaneous a. [f. L. tripedāne-us + -ous] = sense a. Obs. rare—0.
1623Cockeram, Tripedall, three foot long. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tripedanious, Tripedal..that is three foot long. 1658in Phillips. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. 29 Mar. 202/2 The ‘baked 'tato’ man, with his brightly-polished..tripedal or quadrupedal apparatus. 1878J. J. Young Ceram. Art (1879) 113 The Japanese dragon is a tripedal representative of the species. |