pontoon bridge

Historical Examples

• Already a pontoon-bridge has been thrown across the Marne at Meaux.

  Beyond the Marne

  Henriette Cuvru-Magot

• Chess, ches, n. one of the parallel planks of a pontoon-bridge—generally in pl.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)

  Various

• A pontoon-bridge was at once begun, finished by night, and the troops began the passage.

  The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete

  William T. Sherman

• The picket guard of the enemy was driven away, and soon the pontoon-bridge was in position.

  An Undivided Union

  Oliver Optic

• A train had come in, bringing on it a pontoon-bridge which was to be thrown across the stream at Caperton.

  An Undivided Union

  Oliver Optic