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pontoon
1[ pon-toon ]
noun
- Military. a boat or some other floating structure used as one of the supports for a temporary bridge over a river.
- a float for a derrick, landing stage, etc.
- Nautical. a float for raising a sunken or deeply laden vessel in the water; a camel or caisson.
- a seaplane float.
pontoon
2[ pon-toon ]
noun
- the card game twenty-one.
pontoon
1/ pɒnˈtuːn /
noun
- Also calledesp UStwenty-onevingt-et-un a gambling game in which players try to obtain card combinations worth 21 points
- (in this game) the combination of an ace with a ten or court card when dealt to a player as his first two cards
pontoon
2/ pɒnˈtuːn /
noun
- a watertight float or vessel used where buoyancy is required in water, as in supporting a bridge, in salvage work, or where a temporary or mobile structure is required in military operations
- ( as modifier )
a pontoon bridge
- nautical a float, often inflatable, for raising a vessel in the water
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You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.
You guard the pontoon bridge with a squad of Iraqi Army soldiers and a single interpreter.
While we have not definitively located the video, in one video tanks can be seen crossing a pontoon bridge into Ukraine.
He proceeded to use five pontoon bridges to get his troops across the Rappahannock River.
Sometimes a girder is rolled out about one-third of its length, and then supported on a floating pontoon.
In leaving the pontoon for the offing, the various craft increase in size as the water deepens.
As the real channel is approached, the bridge stops abruptly, and a series of pontoon-like barges takes the place of it.
On the 14th and 15th, by means of his pontoon bridges near Wilcox's Landing, Grant crossed to the south side of the river.
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