pontooner

English

Alternative forms

• pontoneer
• pontonier
• pontonnier
• pontooneer

Etymology

From pontoon +‎ -er.

Noun

pontooner (plural pontooners)

1. One who constructs a pontoon.
   • 2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 232:

     More shells and splinters came the pontooner's way than anyone else's.