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Definition of Pontoon bridge
1. Noun. A temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons.
Definition of Pontoon bridge
1. Noun. A temporary bridge built over floating pontoons ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pontoon Bridge
Literary usage of Pontoon bridge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A notable example of the type is the pontoon bridge built in 1873 across the ...
A pontoon bridge over the Golden Horn at Constantinople is 1531 feet long ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"In the United States Army, where the pontoon bridge was extensively and ...
In the month of February, 1862, a pontoon bridge composed of «0 boats of a ..."
3. The Engineering Index Annual for by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1914)
"Pontoon« The New pontoon bridge at Constantinople. Illustrated description of a
new bridge over the ... 38250 A. Projects for a pontoon bridge Over the ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"The laying of the pontoon bridge was completed about midnight of the fourteenth,
and the crossing of the balance of the army was rapidly pushed forward by ..."
5. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
"PRISONERS USED TO SCREEN A pontoon bridge (1914) "AFTER this came the general
sack of the town. Many of the inhabitants who escaped the massacre were kept ..."
6. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1885)
"... mauga—Laying of pontoon bridge—Crossing of Sherman's army—Arrival of Howard—Sherman
moves on Missionary hills—Seizes first ..."
7. Report by United States Christian Commission Committee of Maryland (1864)
"Others crossed from Harrison's to Jordan's Point on boats A pontoon bridge is
formed by anchoring flat bottomed boats with the current of a river at such ..."
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