Meaning & use
Pontooning
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The action or practice of using pontoons, floating buoyant structures, to support a bridge, platform, or vessel on water.
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Engineers spent the week pontooning sections of the temporary bridge across the flooded river.
The film crew used pontooning platforms to float their cameras alongside the boat race.
A note on using this word
"Pontooning" derives from "pontoon," itself from the Latin ponto, a flat-bottomed boat, historically used by armies to build temporary bridges over rivers.
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