Definitions for pontoon

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pontoon pon·toon

Spelling: [pon-toon]

IPA: /pɒnˈtun/

Pontoon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in pontoon (nnooopt).

Definitions for pontoon

noun

1. Military. a boat or some other floating structure used as one of the supports for a temporary bridge over a river.
2. a float for a derrick, landing stage, etc.
3. Nautical. a float for raising a sunken or deeply laden vessel in the water; a camel or caisson.
4. a seaplane float.
5. the card game twenty-one.

Origin of pontoon

1585-95; French ponton Latin pontōn- (stem of pontō) flat-bottomed boat, punt

Examples for pontoon

A pontoon bridge, dotted with figures in khaki, crossed a deep pool.

I am pleased with you; but look—there comes a lady on our pontoon.

The pontoon wagon was brought up, and unloaded by the side of the river.

He flung the door open and dove far enough to clear the pontoon.

You guard the pontoon bridge with a squad of Iraqi Army soldiers and a single interpreter.

Beyond the burning town was the river, crossed now by six pontoon bridges.

The bridge swayed, then caved in, where the pontoon had been struck and was sinking.

While we have not definitively located the video, in one video tanks can be seen crossing a pontoon bridge into Ukraine.

Scotty climbed out on the pontoon and caught the rope thrown by a seaman.

The horses were attached to the pontoon wagon, ready for a start.