Pros. [f. TRI-, after DIPODY.] A group or verse of three feet.
1883. Jebb, Oedipus Tyrannus, p. lxx. This verse forms a … sentence of three dactyls, a dactylic tripody.
1891. Harper’s Mag., March, 570/2. There are hundreds of [folk-songs] in Hungarian music consisting of dipodies, tetrapodies, tripodies, pentapodies, and hexapodies.
