a. Having three feet; esp. having three supports, tripod, as a three-footed stool.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., xlix. (Z.) 287. Tripes, þryfete [MS. W. þrifotede]. Ibid., Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 124/6. Trisilis, þryfotad fæt.
c. 1425. Cast. Persev., 2599, in Macro Plays, 154. Worldis wele is lyke a iij-foted stole; It faylyt a man at hys most nede.
1555. Eden, Decades, 195. I named the mountayne where these trees grow, the mountayne of three footed trees.
1671. H. M., trans. Erasm. Colloq., 436. If we believe Oedipus, there are found fourfooted, and threefooted, and twofooted men.
1772. Pennsylvania Packet, 6 July, 4/1. Enamelled and plain three footed cream jugs.
1821. Scott, Kenilw., x. So saying he approached to the fire a three-footed stool.
1910. Detroit Free Press, 17 April, 48. headline, Three footed bear no spook; slain doubles ends mystery.
