All 5 Uses of
oblong
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- From the scabbard on the right of his saddle projected the stock and the long oblong clip of a short automatic rifle.†
Chpt 21 *
- He looked out across the narrow oblong, noting the height of the rocks on either side.†
Chpt 22
- He saw the oblong double line of men and horses dark against the snow as they forced at an angle up the hill.†
Chpt 25
- Robert Jordan felt his own breath tight now as though a strand of wire bound his chest and, steadying his elbows, feeling the corrugations of the forward grip against his fingers, he put the oblong of the foresight, settled now in the notch of the rear, onto the center of the man's chest and squeezed the trigger gently.†
Chpt 43
- The old man leaned far over the edge handing down the oblong blocks of explosive and Robert Jordan reached up for them, shoved them in where he wanted them, packed them close, braced them, "Wedges, _viejo!†
Chpt 43
Definition:
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(oblong) an elongated shape -- typically of a stretched circle that is longer than an oval, but occasionally used to describe a rectangle