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n. A floating structure, such as a flatbottom boat, that is used to support a bridge.

n. A floating structure serving as a dock.

n. A float on a seaplane.

n. A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.

n. A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.

n. A box used to raise a sunken vessel.

n. A float of a seaplane.

n. A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.

n. A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

n. A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.

n. In milit engin., a flat-bottomed boat, or any light framework or floating structure, used in the construction of a temporary bridge over a river.

n. Nautical, a lighter; a low flat vessel resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, chiefly in the Mediterranean.

n. In hydraulic engineering: A water-tight structure or frame placed beneath a submerged vessel and then filled with air to assist in refloating the vessel.

n. A water-tight structure which is sunk by filling with water and raised by pumping it out, used to close a sluiceway or entrance to a dock. Also spelled ponton.

n. In anatomy, a loop or knuckle of the small intestine: so called from the way it appears to float in the abdominal cavity. See the quotation under mesentery.

n. In brewing, one of the cleansing-rounds or cleansing-squares used for clarifying ale.

n. Same as catamaran, 4.

n. a float supporting a seaplane

n. (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge

"It could very well have been "pontoon" on a different day."

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blackjack    baccarat    twenty-one   

lighter    boa    pontoon bridge    vingt-et-un   

Bethune    Boone    Calhoun    June    Karun    Kuhn    Moon    Noone    Rangoon    Sassoon   

praam    cantilever    twelve-oared    panzer    trunnion    group/ydwf-online-live-bridge/web/duplicate-bridge-and-board    brown-sailed    1-70    first-inning    one-lane