Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A figure consisting of three curved lines or branches, or three stylized human arms or legs, radiating from a common center.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A widely distributed symbolic device composed of three arms or branches radiating from a center. It does not seem to be connected with the swastika, which has four arms. It first appears in a simple form in the coinage of Lycia. In antiquity it was the national symbol of Sicily. The three legs appear in the Sicilian coinage and upon vases. They also compose the armorial emblem of the Isle of Man. See
triskele .
Wiktionary
- n. Any figure or object composed of three interlocked spirals, limbs (especially bent human legs), or any similar symbol with three protrusions and a threefold rotational symmetry.
- n. The symbol of Sicily, and of the Isle of Man.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center
Etymologies
- New Latin, from Greek triskelēs, three-legged : tri-, tri- + skelos, leg.
Examples
“However, I don't think the rabb...er, lagomorphs in your triskelion emblem agree with you.”
“Nah, it's just an Austrian attempt at the Welsh triskelion.”
“Not entirely sure I am the most "English" person in Parliament I'm currently staring at a giant Manx triskelion that even Lindsay Hoyle would be proud of!”
“Will recognized the symbol as the triskelion of the Armies of the Mighty.”
Asimov's Science Fiction
“Even when the artificer made sure to mention Tawnos's inventions, such as the triskelion, a mobile fortification, the eyes of the nobles glazed over and Tawnos could almost hear their ears clicking off.”
The Brothers' War
“A hundred yards away, a headless dragon engine was using its neck as a metallic whip to breach one of the triskelion towers.”
The Brothers' War
“Isle of Man, by the way, is a British protectorate whose symbol is an armored triskelion, a three-legged creation that appears always to be running despite having no head -much like some politicians who come immediately to mind.”
“Using the triskelion to illustrate the clods in D.C. was very George Willish!!”
“Three is the root of the Celtic triskelion, the symbolic trinity of spirals that some optimistic neopagans associate with three shalt be the number thou shalt count, no more, no less.”
“And the strands of the taut triskelion remain fairly insulated until the exciting conclusion where the protagonists 'paths finally cross.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘triskelion’.
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Logolepsy
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Prolagus hahaha! Mar 27, 2008
reesetee See three legs of man. Mar 26, 2008