ponton
- a variation of pontoon.
Example Sentences
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Many were swept to the first ponton bridge and dragged to safety.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was then less important than the ponton bridges the Americans had slung together downriver.
From Time Magazine Archive
But several days before the revolt broke out, says the U.N. report, ponton bridges were assembled by the Russian army at Zahony on the Hungarian-Soviet frontier.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the night of the 11th attempts were made to lay the ponton bridges at a point opposite the town.
From Vermont riflemen in the war for the union, 1861 to 1865 A history of Company F, First United States sharp shooters by Ripley, William Y. W.
Or, another construction would be:—"After the enemy ran away, we crossed the bridge" = Post kiam la malamiko forkuris, ni transiris la ponton.
From The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary by Cox, George
