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Pontoon

noun

(nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge.

A float supporting a seaplane.

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"Pontoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... and nobody but the guides knew our destination, and we followed them in silence up the shell-pitted road and across the pontoon bridge that spanned the Yser Canal. Various dark forms hobbled past, their baggy trousers showing them to be Algerians. A French outpost challenged us, and a party of Ghurkas passed us leading pack horses with the ...

— From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade • Frederic C. Curry

... justice to the feelings I experienced at the time. I can truly say that I have never seen anything so lovely since—the splendid walks, with their long avenues of wide-spreading and noble-looking trees; the bright gardens and sparkling fountains; the babbling burns, crossed here and there by pontoon bridges; and last, but by no means least, the panoramic bits of the distant landscape visible through the openings in the trees—all these went to make up a veritable Arcadia. Then, as I walked further into the park I saw numbers ...

— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End

Words linked to "Pontoon" : lighter, hoy, flatboat, amphibian, bateau bridge, barge, amphibious aircraft, pontoon plane, boat, float, floating bridge