tripus
noun
°(obsolete rare in the _ history _ of _ Cambridge University capitalised when used as a title) A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prævaricator.
°(obsolete rare Greek and Roman _ antiquities) A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
synonyms: bachelor of the stool, prævaricator, terræ filius, tripos more» , tripod, malleus, malleus weberi