a. Having three heads; three-headed.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, V. 87. Iuno … stricken so did stand By triple headed sheering shafte, ysent by Herculs hand.
1605. Drayton, Pastorals, iv. 30. Such monster-tamers … As haue tyde vp the triple-headed hound.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Wks. (1677), 94. The *Tripleheaded Turn-key of Heaven with the Tripleheaded Porter of Hell.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 29. Proserpine and Cerberus were triple-headed.
1847. Ld. Lindsay, Chr. Art, I. 84. The triple-headed, bat-winged, horned and hoofed monster of the later middle ages.
1863. Burlington Times, 23 Feb., 2/1. We have three several causes of the war assigned: the ‘niggers’ caused it; the Abolitionists caused it; the ‘black Republicans’ caused it; just a triple-headed lie.
1910. S. F. Examiner, 12 Jan., 1/2. heading. Morgan Will Control Triple-Headed Combine, Greatest in World.
