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▪ I. † pont1 Obs.
Also 4–5 pount(e.
[a. F. pont:—L. pons, pont-em bridge. So Welsh pont.]
A bridge.
1470–85Malory Arthur xi. i. 571 Syr launcelot rode on his aduenture tyl..he past ouer the pounte of Corbyn. 1639Glasgow Council Rec. 11 Oct., Ordanit that ane dyke be built at Stockwall-heid, and ane Pont put therein. [1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 25 Strange thoughts present themselves anent the old pont.]
b. pont tournis. [OF. pont torneïs, f. pont bridge + torneïs, L. type *tornātīcius, f. late L. tornare to turn.] A drawbridge.
13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 743 The leuedi stod, in pount tournis, For to bihelde the burdis. a1400Lybeaus Disc. (Kaluza) 1385 Boþe lordes and ladis Leyn out in pount tournis [v.rr. pomet tours, pount tornere, etc.] To se þat selly siȝt.
‖c. pont-volant. [F. |pɔ̃vɔlɑ̃|, = flying-bridge.] (See quot.)
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Pont volant, flying bridge, a kind of bridge used in sieges; made of two small bridges laid one over another, and so contrived by means of cords and pullies placed along the sides of the under-bridge, that the upper may be pushed forwards, till it join the place where it is designed to be fixed. 1861in Buchanan Dict. Arts. 1864in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
▪ II. † pont2 Obs.
[a. Du. pont(e: see next, and cf. punt n.1]
a. A large flat boat or transport; a float; = pontoon 1.
b. = caisson: see quots.
a.1631Pory Let. 22 Sept. in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 133 King of Spain's forces by sea,..taken by the Prince of Orange..ten great pontes, in every one of which four⁓score men. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 99 You must also have..a Boatman to keep your Float or Pont steady. 1816W. S. Mason Statist. Acc. Irel. II. 267 Two boats, called by the fishermen [on Lough Neagh] ponts, of 30 cwt. each, used principally in the carriage of turf.
b.1721Perry Daggenh. Breach 31 Large Ponts or Chests..he propos'd to sink at about twelve Foot space from each other, beginning from a Peer. 1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 106/2 Mr. Boswell was first to make piers and then sink 6 ponts or chests 60 feet in length, 30 feet broad.
▪ III. ‖ pont3|pɒnt|
[Du. pont ferry-boat, pontoon:—MDu. ponte = MLG., LG. punte, ad. L. ponto, -ōnem a punt, a pontoon, a floating bridge, f. pons bridge.]
Name in S. Africa for a large ferry-boat attached to an iron or steel cable.
1775Masson Journ. to Cape in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 279 We came to the pont or ferry. 1899Daily News 11 Dec. 5/3 The Boers have seized the pont on the Orange River at Prieska, and cut the wire cable attached to it. 1900Ibid. 13 Jan. 5/2 Pont is the name given in South Africa to the ferry boats plying on the large and more rapid rivers, and worked by steel cables.
▪ IV. pont
obs. form of pant v. |