Pontoon 2 n 1 Also called esp.

Pontoon definition verb. Pontoon pontoons plural A pontoon is a floating platform often one used to support a bridge. US twenty-one vingt-et-un a gambling game in which players try to obtain card combinations worth 21 points. A leather-covered bludgeon with a short flexible shaft or strap used as a hand weapon.

Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Simple past tense and past participle of pontoon. Having a pontoon or pontoons attached to it.

A floating pontoon bridge links each side of the city but this has been relegated to pedestrian traffic since they built a spectacular motorway. He asked me what to do. I have places to go and people to see.

A short distance downstream each night they placed a pontoon bridge across the river and took it up before dawn the next morning. Games A card game in which the object is to accumulate cards with a higher count than that of the dealer but not exceeding 21. I want to leave.

A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock. A flat-bottomed boat or portable float used in building a floating temporary bridge. In leaving the pontoon for the offing the various craft increase in size as the water deepens.

N-count a pontoon bridge. I dont know how to say it. Countable a boat or hollow structure that is one of several used to support a floating platform or bridge.