1755 Dictionary of the English Language

Regency Word Wednesday

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Ponton

“A floating bridge or invention to pass over water: it is made of two great boats placed at some distance from one another, both planked over, as is the interval between them, with rails on their sides: the whole so strongly built as to carry over horse and cannon.”

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