shuttle-shaped love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Shaped like a shuttle; fusiform.

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Examples

  • -- Placed behind the articulating point of the second and third phalanges, this small shuttle-shaped bone assists in the formation of the pedal articulation.

    Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

  • This is a shuttle-shaped craft, about fifteen feet long and just wide enough to let its single paddler sit flat on the bottom.

    All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • He wins our admiration from the expert management at sea of his little shuttle-shaped canoe, which is a kind of marine bicycle, but I doubt very much the somersaults he is reported to be able to turn in them.

    The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants 1871

  • It's a region that has for decades gotten its lifeblood from the space program, with a school named Astronaut High School and a McDonald's with a space shuttle-shaped play place inside.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • a small, shuttle-shaped air-craft, with clear glass sides which had actually made them overlook it at first.

    The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Homer Eon Flint 1908

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