tripod

Meanings

1. A three-legged stand or mount.
2. A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
3. A man with macrophallism.

1. To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.
2. Of a lizard, to raise its body upright bracing itself on hind legs and tail.

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes Borrowed from Latin tripūs, tripodis, from Ancient Greek τρίπους (trípous); equivalent to tri- + -pod. Doublet of tripus and teapoy.