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ˈthree-ˌfooted, a.
Having three feet; esp. having three supports, tripod, as a three-footed stool.
c1000ælfric Gram. xlix. (Z.) 287 Tripes, þryfete [MS. W. þrifotede]. ― Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 124/6 Trisilis, þryfotad fæt. c1425Cast. Persev. 2599 in Macro Plays 154 Worldis wele is lyke a iij-foted stole; It faylyt a man at hys most nede. 1555Eden Decades 195, I named the mountayne where these trees grow, the mountayne of three footed trees. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 436 If we believe Oedipus, there are found fourfooted, and threefooted, and twofooted men. 1821Scott Kenilw. x, So saying he approached to the fire a three-footed stool. |