Monopod

Quick meaning: Monopod is a noun meaning A portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope.

Meaning

A portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope.

More Meanings

1. Someone or something that has only one foot or foot-like projection; especially, a mythological dwarf-like creature with a single, large foot extending from a leg centred in the middle of its body.

Example Sentences

Here the monopod hero, Santa Anna, fights cocks, and waits the moving of the waters in Mexico.

Vnto what end like wiſe ſhould I ſpeak of thoſe blind Andabates that fight without eyes, or of thoſe great eared people the Faneſii, whoſe ears ſhadowed and couered their whole body? or of the Monopods, which in like manner ſhadow their whole body with one foote?

Hence their ſacred Tables, ſome placed before the Images of their Gods in their Temples (as mention’d. Iſai. 65. 11. Ezek. 23. 41) and ſome ſet up for Libations, and other Idolatrous Uſes, in their Houſes: ſome call’d Tripods, with three Feet, ſome Tetrapods, with four; and ſome Monopods with one, in Manner of a Pillar:[…].

Very many fragments of vases, of various dimensions, were also found: some of them adorned in tiles, and some in circles; a part in intaglio, and a part in relief; all of terra cotta. Three monopods, of a single stone, are still uninjured, and the very ruins, under which they formerly lay for so many ages, have preserved them.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for monopod

Depending on context, synonyms include unipod, uniped.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unipod, bipod, spider, boom, kickstand, propstick.

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