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Proof that strapping logs together is engineering when you commit hard enough.
means A floating structure—often a hollow tube or set of buoyant cylinders—used to support a bridge, dock, or boat on water.
from From French 'ponton,' meaning a floating bridge or flat-bottomed boat, which traces back to Latin 'ponto' (a kind of flat boat or floating bridge), itself from 'pons,' the Latin word for bridge. So a pontoon is, quite literally, a little bridge that floats.
- war machine
- Armies built pontoon bridges to cross rivers under fire
- card game
- Pontoon is Britain's homegrown blackjack cousin
- buoyancy trick
- Hollow tubes let heavy boats float on placid lakes
- party deck
- Pontoon boats are basically floating living rooms
- ancient roots
- Romans floated armies across the Rhine on pontoons
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venetian pontoon platforms — temporary floating structures in venice canals used for temporary structures and events