Synonyms:
oblong
Meaning: a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation
Usage examples
The box in question was, as I say, oblong.
Here was her boat! a very large, old-fashioned, oblong tub.
He had opened his oblong box, in order to feast his eyes on the pictorial treasure within.
She lined the oblong tub with a blanket, and made ready bread and cold meat left from supper.
This clearing was a cemetery, this hole a grave, that oblong object the body of the man who must have died during the night!
Looking with greater care, I observed that four of them were carrying on their shoulders an object that was oblong in shape.
"Can I be deceived?" he murmured, as he stepped into the oblong and grated vehicle which they call "the salad basket." "Never mind, we shall see!
Immediately beneath me in the ocean, lay a small black object, slightly oblong in shape, seemingly about the size, and in every way bearing a great resemblance to one of those childish toys called a domino.
I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or innuendoes, about the oblong box--just to let him perceive, gradually, that I was not altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification.
They were sounds occasioned by the artist in prying open the oblong box, by means of a chisel and mallet--the latter being apparently muffled, or deadened, by some soft woollen or cotton substance in which its head was enveloped.