0 one of the flat-bottomed boats used to support a temporary roadway (a pontoon bridge) across a river etc. -- ponton
1 a kind of card game. -- jednadvacet, oko
While we are waiting for a tunnel we have this ferry whose gangways, pontoons, and everything connected with it are dropping to pieces.
Contracts were also let for lesser work (including periodic overhaul) on other vessels, principally harbour craft and pontoons.
It may be that over the years the costs of the repair of the pontoon have increased.
The approach to the pontoon will, of course, be through the dockyard gate.
Then if the battle is to be commemorated it would seem to require not so much a disused churchyard as a floating pontoon.
A fire at sea could be beyond territorial limits, perhaps on a ship or an offshore installation such as an oil rig or pontoon.
In the earlier stages of construction, machinery and equipment would be off loaded from pontoons or other beach landing craft.
There is a later development by which they can produce their own pontoons and do their servicing at sea.
