The Collaborative International Dictionary
U-shaped \U"-shaped`\, a. Having the form of the letter U; specif. (Phys. Geog.), of valleys, resembling a broad U in cross profile.
Wiktionary
a. Shaped like the letter "U"; bent such that the two ends are parallel.
Usage examples of "u-shaped".
It was now U-shaped, the edges of the seat curving up to support gilded handrests, and the back a single slat topped by a carved griffin.
He stumbled over the hose as he took the nozzleman position, fingers fumbling over the moveable U-shaped handle called the bail.
He handed his flashlight to Pickover, and brought the disk up in front of him, holding it vertically by its two U-shaped handles.
Virgil placed Tunafish at the end table closest to the toiletso the man would have to walk all the way input the suitcase on a chair, got Tunafish a rum and Coke, and walked around the U-shaped bar to the stool he liked.
In another moment, he and Baden, and Alayna and Sartol, stepped into the space created by the U-shaped table and stopped in front of where Jessamyn now stood regarding them with a smile on her lips.
The apples were for the garbage disposals that sat in a row near the wall, held erect by U-shaped brackets.
Jinny Anson slipped into an unoccupied chair next to the U-shaped set of communications consoles, while Doug paced slowly through the big chamber, walking behind the seated technicians, glancing at each individual display screen.
I still had the U-shaped plastic headpiece that Foster had used to acquire a background knowledge of his old home.
So he decided he'd sit around on the other side of the U-shaped bar with his back to the wall, where there were paintings of naked African ladies and a buck straddling a bongo drum, beating the shit out of it.
The tube connected with a large U-shaped drying tube filled with calcium chloride, which, in turn, connected with a long open tube with an upturned end.
A U-shaped berm, no more than twenty feet high and perhaps a hundred feet long, had been built of sandbags on what had been the practice driving range before the OSS took over the Country Club.
Some of the Imperial cavalry were popping away at the airship with their carbines, and in the village square ahead they had an improvised antiaircraft mounting for a gatling gun-a U-shaped iron framework on a set of gears and cams.
The thick, rough wood of the U-shaped bench showed the nicks, gouges, and burns common on a jewelry designer’s work surface.
Preferring an inside climb to an outside one, he took the ramps back to the bridge and made use of the small lock which gave onto the top of the hull-a U-shaped pip of liquid ammonia just about large enough for a Mesklinite body.
The Trepid was well laced into her U-shaped slip, stern to the pier, with husky stern lines crossed to the big bollards, bow lines to the pilings, and a pair of spring lines to big cleats on the narrow dock on the starboard.