Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having only one foot.
- noun One who or that which is one-footed. Compare
monopode .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having only one foot.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or creature with only one
foot orleg
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Examples
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If now and then a "uniped" happens to stray into it, the incongruity is as conspicuous as in the case of
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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Evidently this discreet "uniped" was impressed with the desirableness of living to fight another day.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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Eric the Red, "the only doubtful part of which is the" uniped "episode, a touch of mediaeval superstition so palpable as not to be deceptive.
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884
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The narrator calls it a "uniped," or some sort of one-footed goblin, [232] but that is hardly reasonable, for after the shooting it went on to perform the further quite human and eminently Indian-like act of running away. [
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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The chemist said, "Along the sides of the uniped are microscopic atomic furnaces, each of which vaporizes about a million molecules or so in the surrounding rock and decomposes them into atoms.
The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955
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