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Cigar-shaped   Listen
adjective
cigar-shaped  adj.  Cylindrical, tapering at each end; having the shape of a cigar.
Synonyms: fusiform, spindle-shaped.





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"Cigar-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books



... balloon returned to its starting-point on five of the seven occasions. Subsequently another balloon was constructed, said to be capable of a speed of 22 to 28 m. per hour, with a different motor. After many years of experi- ment Dr Wolfert built and experimented with in Berlin, in 1897, a cigar-shaped balloon driven by a gasoline motor. An explosion took place in the air, the balloon fell and Dr Wolfert and his assistant were killed. It was also in 1897 that an aluminium balloon was built from ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
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... couldn't help but like it. It's a corker. But what's that side car paraphernalia, that long box and the cigar-shaped tin can and the reel with wire cable on ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
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... the huge mammal looked like a cigar-shaped piece of smooth, shiny slate-colored India-rubber—no longer black. Four or five feet of its diameter and forty feet or more of its length showed like a mound in the smooth water, and the body alternately rose and dipped as the whale swam slowly along. It was doubtless feeding on ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster
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Words linked to "Cigar-shaped" :   spindle-shaped, fusiform, pointed


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