What is "four-sided"

Usage examples of "four-sided".

At the entrance to the park there are two stone gateposts, four-sided, bevelled at the top, Egyptian-looking.

Their mounds were not cones but four-sided pyramids-their sides, like those of the Egyptian pyramids, corresponding with the cardinal points.

He was richly dressed, however, in a heavy scarlet cappa lined in miniver in spite of the heat, and a curious four-sided board with a gold tassel atop his thick locks.

It was a four-sided contest, formed by two nuls and two Earthmen: Chav, Synvoret, Rivars, and Gary.

Billing himself as Bondo, the Escape Artist, he would pretend to rob audience members of their fine jewelry, watches and gold pieces, only to assure them that he would be locked up like a criminal in a four-sided cage with iron bars, his hands and feet cuffed and chained.

It dragged the yellow line of its orbit with it, opening the triangle into a four-sided evolute of ellipse.

Inside this, beyond an encircling space that formed an outer ward, was a four-sided bailey, a hollow square without a central keep, with towers at the corners and a great barbican at the entrance.

Standing by the open doors he lit a slender cigar and watched through narrowed eyes as obsequious servants in black flitted along the low wide corridor, carrying laden trays into the broad room, arranging settings on a great four-sided table forming a hollow square that almost filled the room.

The Weary Soldier had been mounted on a four-sided pyramid of rounded river stones, like the stones of Avilion, and the bronze plaques were bordered with lilies and poppies, intertwined with maple leaves.