Pontoon is valid Scrabble Word

Is pontoon a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
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Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pontoon valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for PONTOON in dictionary:

VERB:

to cross with a pontoon
cross a river using pontoons

NOUN:

a flat-bottomed boat or barge, also PONTON
a flat-bottomed boat or hollow metal cylinder used with others to support a temporary bridge or floating landing stage
a bridge or landing stage supported by pontoons.
each of a pair of floats fitted to an aircraft to enable it to land on water.
a large flat-bottomed barge or lighter equipped with cranes and tackle for careening ships and salvage work.
the card game blackjack or vingt-et-un
a hand of two cards totalling 21 in pontoon.
floating platform supporting a temporary bridge

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.
A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.
(nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge
a float supporting a seaplane

Words related to PONTOON

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Words that contain PONTOON

pontoons10 spontoon10 pontooned12 pontooner11 spontoons11 pontooners12 pontooning13

How to use PONTOON in a sentence

A very short distance took us to a low-lying pontoon bridge across the stream, and evidently very little higher up than I had struck it.
But the evil was done, and we saw the far end of the pontoon swing into the stream.
In their despair they prepared to leave the city on foot by crossing the pontoon bridge and marching towards the Dutch frontier.
The Germans made numerous attempts to cross the river at different points by means of pontoon bridges, but these were destroyed by the Russian artillery as fast as completed.
The twenty-foot entrance to that pontoon bridge seemed to me like the mouth of a funnel through which poured the dense misery of an entire nation.
The retreating Belgian army had blown up that pontoon bridge and with it what then seemed the last hope of escape for the few remaining survivors.
The soft ground had long since been pounded flat, as the army, swinging round to the north, had crossed on a pontoon a mile or two lower down.
Stepping out gaily, they soon arrive under the chestnuts of the Tuileries, cross the bridge, then down the river-bank, over the shaky gangway, and so on to the steamer pontoon.
The enemy had built eight pontoon bridges over the Yser canal, but all of them had been destroyed.
Breaking through the mist veil that hung over the James, he cast a golden pontoon across the river, and then came over in all his splendour.

Tens of thousands of soldiers were marching over the pontoon bridges already flung across the river.
They were destined for a big pontoon bridge which these men were, with thousands of soldiers, throwing across the stream.
Half-way across the crazy pontoon bridge of ice, the dogs, harnessed to one of the small sleds, became suddenly terrified.
The place was at this time almost without defence, and, had Arnold possessed a suitable pontoon equipage, it might easily have been taken by surprise.
The passage of the river was effected by means of two pontoon bridges made of empty barrels, and thrown across the stream a little below the Dilkusha.
On the left a few hundred yards away an ammunition section that had crossed by the pontoon was at full gallop.
During the 14th, strong reinforcements of our troops were passed to the north bank, the troops crossing by ferry, by pontoon bridges, and by the remains of permanent bridges.
Numerous floating bridges have been thrown across the Aisne and some of the pontoon bridges have been repaired under fire.
Then voices of men rose shrilly above all heavier noises, as the ship slowly turned and crept beside a floating pontoon.
The army corps also contains a regiment of field artillery or howitzers, a pioneer battalion and a pontoon company, and numbers about 34,000 combatants.
Pontoon bridges were thrown across and so the Hindenburg Line was reached and crossed.
At the same time the engineers were building pontoon bridges and smaller foot bridges.
At Kantara a pontoon bridge and a decrepit chain ferry of uncertain moods maintained irregular intercourse with the other side.
His guns were suddenly uncovered, the tiny French flotilla was sunk or scattered, and a pontoon or raft, carrying sixty men of the Guards, pushed out from the British bank.
There were two bridges there, one for the railroad and one a low pontoon bridge.
That night the Engineers constructed a steel pontoon bridge, and an entire cavalry regiment was passed over by dawn.
The division under Holstein was planted on an eminence on the other side of the river, across which a pontoon bridge was at once thrown.
A pontoon bridge was thrown across the Ohio, and continued there until the siege was ended.
An old Scotchman, in the very likeness of Charon, with big hip boots, controlled a pontoon, which sagged back and forth by current on a wire rope.
We were told that the Potomac was at a high stage, and that we must wait until a pontoon bridge could be laid.
Men were set to work at once building a new bridge near Falling Waters, parts of the ruined pontoon bridges were recovered, and new boats were built in haste.
But under the direction of skillful engineers, the best in the world, pontoon bridges sprang up as if by magic.
There was no possibility of getting across without the assistance of a pontoon bridge.
By the evening of February 26 the troops for the main attack had recrossed the Tugela, and the pontoon bridge west of Hlangwhane could now be removed.
The absolute thoroughness with which the India-rubber pontoon system is described by him gives a basis for appreciating the other systems described in outline.
Our track was continued across the pontoon bridge and ran around the west shore of Kite Island.
Then we cut away the suspension, spar and pontoon bridges, so that we would not be annoyed by any of the Gill crowd.

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