The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triskelion \Tris*kel"i*on\, or Triskele \Tris"kele\, n. [Gr. ? three-legged. See Tri-; Isosceles.] 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.
Wiktionary
n. A symbol consisting of three (or sometimes more) connected curves or spirals.
WordNet
n. a figure consisting of three stylized human arms or legs (or three bent lines) radiating from a center [syn: triskelion]
Usage examples of "triskele".
Louarn had seen the triskele once, tossed in a jumble of chain on the mantel, nearly obscured by years of dust, and thought no more of it than he would have of an old tool neglected at the bottom of a box.
The remains of a triskele had strewn the table, and in death Evonder clutched the tools that had shattered it.
The shade of Daivor, the binder who trained you, the binder who trained me, the man who was traded with our parents, was bound into his own triskele by those who murdered him, more than two nineyears after you left.
I have touched that triskele and felt his spirit as though casting passage, and I tell you true, brother I have never known: He was my father, and believed, hoped, that he was yours as well.
They had marked the location of every triskele on a map, then collected them all, with utmost respect, into a plain chest, now stored on the level below awaiting an appropriate place of honor.
I called him Triskele, and I said, even to myself, that he was mine, though I had no right to keep a dog.
I killed a bull once with my sword, and when it was lying dead in its own blood it still looked quite a bit more living than Triskele did then.
The Master Malrubius you knew lives in me, and your old Triskele in this Triskele.
Perhaps after all it was my discovery of Triskele, which I have said changed nothing, that in the end changed everything.
I walked down the pont and out upon sand, and Master Malrubius and Triskele followed me.
I walked north because I was reluctant to leave it too soon, and because Triskele had run in that direction, along the margin of the sea.
On their instructions, the Hierodules construct such ships as the one that bore me from the jungle to the sea, so that aquastors like Malrubius and Triskele may serve them also.
One of the bowls in which I had carried soup to Triskele was there still.
I saw where I had lost the track, running straight on when Triskele had turned aside.
Hearing it, it seemed to me for a moment that it was my own cry, that something I had held deep inside me since that still-dark morning when I had walked the beach with the aquastor Master Malrubius and watched the aquastor Triskele dissolve in shimmering dust had freed itself and separated itself from me, and that it was below, howling in the faint, lost light.