monopod

noun2

1. •
   A portable stand with one leg, used to support a camera or telescope.
2. •
   Someone or something that has only one foot or foot-like projection; especially, a mythological dwarf-like creature with a single, large foot extending from a leg centred in the middle of its body.

   • Here the monopod hero, Santa Anna, fights cocks, and waits the moving of the waters in Mexico. — 1857