monopod

/ˈmɑ.nə.pɑd/

monopod noun: a portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope.

Noun

monopod (plural monopods)

A portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope.
- Another neat device is a kind of monopod (if we may coin a word), which is adjusted against the hub of the wheel by means of a Y-top, and has adjustable extension to reach to the ground. This sliding brass foot telescopes and shuts up into a length of only about sixteen inches, making a very...1886 September 26, “Photography for Wheelmen”, in Charles F[rederick] Chandler, Arthur H[enry] Elliott, editors, Anthony’s Photographic Bulletin, volume XVI, number 18, New York, N.Y.: E. & H. T....
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.
- 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?1586, Lodowicke Lloid, “Of the maners of sundrie people, and of their strange life”, in The Pilgrimage of Princes, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, folios 77, verso – 78, recto
- 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...1751, Benjamin Holloway, Originals Physical and Theological &c., volume II, pages 170–171
Synonyms:

uniped

Examples of monopod in a sentence

Another neat device is a kind of monopod (if we may coin a word), which is adjusted against the hub of the wheel by means of a Y-top, and has adjustable extension to reach to the ground.1886 September 26, “Photography for Wheelmen”, in Charles F[rederick] Chandler, Arthur H[enry] Elliott, editors, Anthony’s Photographic...
Some, a kind of monopods, have only one of such prominences, which being always fixed almost under the head, may serve, in some degree, the purpose of an unguiform mandible.1817, William Kirby, William Spence, “Motions of Insects. (Larva and Pupa.)”, in An Introduction to Entomology: or Elements of the Natural...
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.1853, E. E. S., “Dr. Vassallo on Maltese Antiquities. Dei Monumenti Antichi nel Gruppo di Malta Cenni Storici del Dr. Cesare Vassallo....
Here the monopod hero, Santa Anna, fights cocks, and waits the moving of the waters in Mexico.1857, Isaac F[arwell] Holton, “Cartagena. […]”, in New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 47:

Synonyms of monopod

Forms of monopod

plural	monopods

Origin of monopod

From mono- + -pod.

Questions about monopod

What does monopod mean?: Monopod means a portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope.
How do you use monopod in a sentence?: Another neat device is a kind of monopod (if we may coin a word), which is adjusted against the hub of the wheel by means of a Y-top, and has adjustable extension to reach to the ground.
What part of speech is monopod?: Monopod is a noun.
How do you pronounce monopod?: Monopod is pronounced /ˈmɑ.nə.pɑd/.
What is the plural of monopod?: The plural of monopod is monopods.

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