Octopal

Textron, with 1970 sales of $1.6 billion, is a fast-growing new conglomerate with octopal interests: textiles, aircraft and parts, electronic equipment, iron and steel castings, bathroom fixtures, machine tools, plastic products, car parts, ...

This octopal reach by the oil companies had been several years in the making.

For 15 years Marley has been singing of a benighted people caught up in the octopal tentacles of an inept and often corrupt government.

Ceph oozed off the stool, his babylegs and octopal tentacles helping him down the side, ...