Pontoons is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PONTOONS in dictionary:

VERB:
• PONTOON, to cross with a pontoon
NOUN:
• 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.

Words related to PONTOONS

pontoon9

Words that contain PONTOONS

spontoons11

How to use PONTOONS in a sentence

• Time after time the Belgians foiled with their heavy fire the attempts of the Germans to cross by means of pontoons.
• When not in use, the pontoons form deck seats, covered by a wooden grating, which in our illustration forms the middle part of the raft.
• An Assyrian army did not carry its boats with it, as a modern army does its pontoons.
• They were lifted by pontoons as the tide rose, and conveyed to and deposited in place, the hollows being filled with air, serving to give buoyancy to the mass.
• Pontoons are flat-bottomed boats by means of which soldiers make a temporary bridge across rivers, generally when the permanent bridges have been destroyed by the enemy.
• Pontoons were fixed at the same time, that the troops might pass in different places.
• In the night the besiegers began to throw a bridge of pontoons over the river about a mile higher up than the camp, and this work was finished before morning.
• Whether it be true or not that the Prussians had cut a dam, or whether, as sometimes occurs with literary generals, the pontoons were too few in number, is not yet clear.
• A hawser was dragged across the stream, and pontoons, each carrying fifteen men, were in quick succession pulled across.
• While watching the high railroad bridge, as he was rapidly approaching on the current, he struck on one of the pontoons and was whirled under.
• The light pontoons that the Turks dragged across the desert for crossing the Canal are said to have been used for carrying water during certain stages of the advance.
• Before dawn, some of the light pontoons which the Turks had brought with them, were launched on the Canal.
• The troops defending this portion of the Canal, mostly Indians, opened fire upon the pontoons, with the result that many of them were sunk.
• Two of the pontoons, however, reached the western bank, and their crews, numbering about twenty, surrendered.
• The plan adopted by the Turks of dragging water-holding pontoons across the desert was not to be despised.
• This position he should have reached hours before, but in his passage down a narrow lane, some of the pontoons for bridging the river were injured.
• Then he pushed down into Torgau, and crossed the town bridge in time to capture twenty-six pontoons.
• Such a craft cannot be capsized easily, and, as the pontoons are watertight, it will weather almost any rough water.
• After finishing both pontoons in this way place them parallel.
• Attach the mast to the front crosspiece, also bowsprit, bracing them both to the pontoons.
• It could not be forded and the active Northern cavalry was in between, keeping advanced parties of the Southern army from laying pontoons.
• We left Schwun on Saturday, the 23rd, crossing the Arrul river, which flows round the town into the Indus, on pontoons, and commenced our first march in Upper Sinde.
• Taken by the English while serving under Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, he passed several years on the pontoons.
• It was in response to the demand for easy transportation that the system for India-rubber pontoons was elaborated.
• On these pontoons, when inflated, the bridge-table is built, lashed, and anchored.
• The pontoons are required to be air-tight, and are temporarily made partially useless by punctures, bullet-holes, rents and chafings, although they are easily repaired.

Similar words containing PONTOON without suffix s

pontoon9 spontoon10 pontooned12 pontooner11 spontoons11 pontooners12 pontooning13

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