pontoon
noun
a boat or some other floating structure used as one of the supports for a temporary bridge over a river.
ponton
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a variation of
pontoon.
Example Sentences
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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
Many were swept to the first ponton bridge and dragged to safety.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 George Cox
The word is ponton in French, and comes from the Latin pons, "a bridge."
From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill
