What is the meaning of Tripod?

A three-legged stand or mount.

A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).

A man with macrophallism.

To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.

Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.

tripod (three-legged stand or mount)

tripod: a three-legged stand or mount.

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