While pontoon bridges are usually temporary structures some are used for long periods of time.

Pontoon bridge short definition. A bridge esp temporary that floats on water supported by watertight floats or vessels A temporary pontoon bridge was thrown across the river during the Civil War. A short distance downstream each night they placed a pontoon bridge across the river and took it up before dawn the next morning. A bridge that floats on the water and is held up by large hollow containers filled with air called pontoons.

A pontoon bridge is a temporary bridge used in wartime and emergencies. Pontoon bridge - a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons bateau bridge floating bridge bridge span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. Earliest use found in John Muller 16991784 mathematician and engineer.

Definition of pontoon bridge. ˈbrɪdʒ A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. Pontoon bridges may need a section that is elevated or can be raised or removed to allow ships to pass.

Xerxes Pontoon Bridge The earliest written record of bridge construction described by Herodotus was a bridge built across the Euphrates River around 600 BC. These are also known as floating bridge. 3 He described a bridge built by Persian ruler Xerxes to cross the Hellespont now the Dardanelles.

Pontocaine Pontoise pontomedullary groove pontonier pontoon pontoon bridge Pontoppidan Pontormo Pontus Pontus Euxinus Pontypool. It may be too expensive to suspend a bridge from anchored piers. This bridge consisted of two parallel pontoon bridges each made up of 314 and 360 boats which were tied to the riverbank and T.

Pontoon noun BRIDGE C a small flat boat or a metal structure of a similar shape used especially to form or support a temporary floating bridge. Military engineers hurriedly constructed a pontoon bridge. Pontoon bridge floating bridge used primarily but not invariably for military purposes.