Name for geometric shape: boat-shaped table

Factual Questions
1

The table in one of my company’s conference rooms is boat-shaped – that is, it’s an ellipse, truncated at both ends. Is there a name for this shape?

2

Truncated ellipse.

3

http://www.interiordesign.net/id_article/CA6251565/id?stt=000&text=conga

http://www.direxindia.com/newstriptor.htm

4

“Boat-shaped tables”
(with pictures)
http://www.google.com/products?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4WDIA_en___US275&q=boat+shaped+tables&um=1

5

“Boat shaped” seems to be the official name
http://www.everythingofficefurniture.com/conference-table-guide.html

6

That’s odd. If someone told me a table was “boat shaped,” I’d picture it truncated at one end and pointed on the other – something like an ironing board.

7

I guess that would be “ironing board shaped.”

I don’t think they put a lot of thought into it. The site I linked had diagrams for rectangle, oval and round tables. If they need a diagram for those, I don’t think they’re going to come up with anything more clever than “boat shaped”