Portable three-legged frame, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object.
1Hamel held the telescope to his eye and steadied it upon the little tripod stand.
2But instead of a milking stool imagine it a great body of machinery on a tripod stand.
3Besides these instruments John Jones has an equatorial which is mounted on a tripod stand, made by himself.
4In September I had my old telescope mounted on a short tripod stand, and made experiments on its adjustments.
5Welstiel took out the rods, each with a loop in its midsection, and intertwined them into a tripod stand.
6A huge book lay open on a tripod stand, and a caldron seethed over a slow and dull fire.
7The tripod stand should be of the so-called threefold variety, with sliding legs which can be adapted to broken ground.
8The frame of the large globe is said to be of solid gold and so is the tripod stand, set in rubies and diamonds.
9At meals the tripod stood beside the table on which the dishes were laid.
10A megaphone and a huge terrestrial telescope on a tripod stood in one corner.
11A camera tripod stood nearby, with a black plastic mailbox fastened incongruously to the top.
12A photographer's tripod stands nearby.
13In one a cooking stove, in another a boiler, elsewhere a tripod standing before the fire, and spits for cooking.
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