pontoon

[ US /pɑnˈtun/ ]
[ UK /pəntˈuːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a float supporting a seaplane
  2. (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge
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How To Use pontoon In A Sentence

  • The creak of the wooden pontoon was such a sad, lonely sound.
  • But here we are, close to the ditch, and I do not see my friend the pontooner. The Country Doctor
  • While waiting for help to arrive, the crew haggled with missionary priests for wine, rice and yams, and struggled to keep curious natives off the pontoons used for water landings.
  • It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
  • There was a motor cruiser moored at the end of the pontoon, dazzlingly white with a blue band above the watermark. CONFESSIONAL
  • We went up to the landing and there passing down by the end of the garden was a party of about 10 men in civvies, carrying rifles heading for the Pontoon Road.
  • The commandant tapped his heart, looked once more at the old pontooner, mounted his horse again, and went his way side by side with Benassis. The Country Doctor
  • He claimed later to have invented a method of transporting armed men across rivers using pontoons for shoes.
  • Other concepts include wind and submarine cars with the latter docking onto floating pontoons.
  • And then I saw it -- the high, white bow of that fishing cruiser gliding in towards the end of the pontoon. HIGH STAND
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