a. rare. [ad. L. tripedāl-is, f. tri-, TRI- + pēs, ped- foot: see -AL.] † a. Having a length or extent of three feet. Obs. rare–0. b. Having three feet, three-footed. So † Tripedaneous a. [f. L. tripedāne-us + -OUS] = sense a. Obs. rare–0.
1623. Cockeram, Tripedall, three foot long.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tripedanious, Tripedal … that is three foot long.
1658. in Phillips.
1856. Chamb. Jrnl., 29 March, 202/2. The “baked ’tato” man, with his brightly-polished … tripedal or quadrupedal apparatus.
1878. Miss J. J. Young, Ceram. Art (1879), 113. The Japanese dragon is a tripedal representative of the species.
