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