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pontoon

[pon-toon] / pɒnˈtun /
NOUN
float
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What to Do: Rent a pontoon boat on Lake Wallenpaupack, then work off the camp-candy crash with a hike through Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

"In the past maybe only the people in that one small village might have known there was something weird on the end of the pontoon."

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

The last time, it was a Soviet-made pontoon bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Rescue teams from Thursday used earth moving equipment on a pontoon to dredge a channel through the sand to allow the animal to escape.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The damaged silk sleigh had been hauled back to its pavilion, and there it lay forlorn, one pontoon deflated.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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