/truy"pod/ , n.
1. a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.
2. a three-legged stand or support, as for a camera or telescope.
3. the oracular seat of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
[ 1595-1605; tripod- (s. of tripus ) tripod- (s. of trípous ) orig., three-footed. See TRI-, -POD ]