A temporary pontoon bridge is to be opened there May 16.

Pontoon definition in a sentence. A river pontoon was assembled by Mauritanian troops under French supervision. A bridge or landing stage supported by pontoons. A wooden flat-bottomed boat a metallic cylinder or a frame covered with canvas India rubber etc forming a portable float used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

Pontoon in British English1. 1 A flat-bottomed boat or hollow metal cylinder used with others to support a temporary bridge or floating landing stage. THE AMERICAN HERITAGE SPANISH DICTIONARY by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries.

Learn how to use the easiest words finder here. Click for more sentences of pontoon. A floating pontoon bridge links each side of the city but this has been relegated to pedestrian traffic since they built a spectacular motorway.

Pontoon noun a low flat vessel resembling a barge furnished with cranes capstans and other machinery used in careening ships raising weights drawing piles etc. A floating structure such as a flatbottom boat used to support a bridge. The boat had two pontoons.

The pontoon upon which the crane will be erected some six months hence will be situated at a point some 100 yards from the slip. In leaving the pontoon for the offing the various craft increase in size as the water deepens. Pontoon noun pontoons plural noun a flat-bottomed boat or hollow metal cylinder used with others to support a temporary bridge or floating landing stage.

Pontoon in a sentence - Use pontoon in a sentence and its meaning 1. As modifier a pontoon bridge.