spindle-shape

It started as a softly mewing spindle-shape hardly large enough to bully a pebble.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

The front and back of the Nautilus was of that spindle-shape which caused it justly to be compared to a cigar.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

There can be no doubt that here this spindle-shape figure represents the shooting plant, the central stock or stem, or, what is far more likely, the seed which gives birth to the plant.

Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. Cyrus Thomas 1867

The front and back of the Nautilus was of that spindle-shape which caused it justly to be compared to a cigar.

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866