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Pontoon N Hollow Metal Cylinder Support Boat Bridge

Word pontoon
Definition
n. A hollow metal cylinder used to support a boat, bridge, landing, aircraft, or similar structure.

Sentence When another night came the columns, changed to purple streaks, filed across two pontoon bridges.
Source Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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