Definitions for sponson

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sponson spon·son

Spelling: [spon-suh n]

IPA: /ˈspɒn sən/

Sponson 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 52 anagrams from letters in sponson (nnoopss).

Definitions for sponson

noun

1. a structure projecting from the side or main deck of a vessel to support a gun or the outer edge of a paddle box.
2. a buoyant appendage at the gunwale of a canoe to resist capsizing.
3. Aeronautics. a protuberance at the side of a flying-boat hull, designed to increase lateral stability in the water.

Origin of sponson

First recorded in 1825-35; variant of expansion

Examples for sponson

The cutter jingled her full-speed bell while the tackle was still lifting the sponson boat.

His tun of a torso bulged roundly out in front of me like the sponson of a battleship.

An eager gunner endeavoured to pass one of the tanks, but his gun caught the sponson and slipped off into the mud.

McKnutt signalled to him, and he opened fire from his sponson.

He leaned on the rail and watched the departure of the officer of the faded blue cap with his crew of the sponson boat.

A bomb exploded directly beneath the sponson, where the dead body had fallen.

There he lay, along one side of the tank between the engine and the sponson.