Word Origin sense 3 early 20th cent.
Pontoon bridge noun. Pontoon Pontoon n. Any of a number of these or of some other floating objects as hollow cylinders used as supports for a temporary bridge pontoon bridge. Sonderburg the capital with a good harbour and a considerable trade is connected with the mainland by a pontoon bridge.
Etymology - rhymes - Wikipedia. A small flat boat or a metal structure of a similar shape used especially to form or support a temporary floating bridge.
Pons pontis a bridge perhaps originally a way path. A pontoon bridge British English also blackjack British and North American English uncountable a card game in which players try to collect cards with a total value of 21 and no more. 1 A flat-bottomed boat or hollow metal cylinder used with others to support a temporary bridge or floating landing stage.
A box used to raise a sunken vessel. Pontoon bridge plural pontoon bridges A temporary bridge built over floating pontoons. Delayed by his pontoon bridge over the Nive having been swept away arrived to his aid.
Military engineers hurriedly constructed a pontoon bridge across the river. Show a temporary bridge built over floating pontoons. Span a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc Meronyms parts of.
Is a specific kind of. Senses 1 to 2 late 17th cent. Military A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.