† pont volantn.

Forms: 1700s–1800s pont volant, 1800s ponts volants (plural).

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pont volant.

Etymology: < French pont volant, literally ‘flying bridge’ (1611 in sense ‘gangway’, 1690 in sense ‘extendable bridge’, 1690 in sense ‘sort of ferry which uses the current to propel a boat tethered by ropes or chains from one side of the river to the other’) < pont pont n.¹ + volant volant adj.

Chiefly Military. Obsolete.

An extendable bridge or gangway; (also) a sort of ferry which uses the current to propel a boat tethered by ropes or chains from one side of a river to the other. Cf. flying bridge n.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > bridge > constructed of boats, rafts, or pontoons

pontoon1590

ship-bridge1663

flying bridge1675

float-bridge1692

pont volant1710

raft bridge1733

pontoon bridge1757

raft1761

1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. Index Pont Volant.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pont-Volant,..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 push'd forwards, till it joins the Place where it is fix'd.

1799 J. Taylor Trav. Eng. to India I. 62 The Pont Volant at Coblentz, constructed to receive with ease a coach and six horses..and by one movement transported to the opposite shore.

1802 Times 5 Apr. 2/3 All the stone bridges and ferryboats are to be demolished or removed, and replaced by flying bridges, ‘ponts volants’.

1870 H. C. Alexander Life Joseph Addison Alexander I. 314 They crossed the Po on a pont volant and entered the Austrian dominions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	pont volant
释义	† pont volantn. Forms: 1700s–1800s pont volant, 1800s ponts volants (plural). Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pont volant. Etymology: < French pont volant, literally ‘flying bridge’ (1611 in sense ‘gangway’, 1690 in sense ‘extendable bridge’, 1690 in sense ‘sort of ferry which uses the current to propel a boat tethered by ropes or chains from one side of the river to the other’) < pont pont n.¹ + volant volant adj. Chiefly Military. Obsolete. An extendable bridge or gangway; (also) a sort of ferry which uses the current to propel a boat tethered by ropes or chains from one side of a river to the other. Cf. flying bridge n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > bridge > constructed of boats, rafts, or pontoons pontoon1590 ship-bridge1663 flying bridge1675 float-bridge1692 pont volant1710 raft bridge1733 pontoon bridge1757 raft1761 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. Index Pont Volant. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pont-Volant,..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 push'd forwards, till it joins the Place where it is fix'd. 1799 J. Taylor Trav. Eng. to India I. 62 The Pont Volant at Coblentz, constructed to receive with ease a coach and six horses..and by one movement transported to the opposite shore. 1802 Times 5 Apr. 2/3 All the stone bridges and ferryboats are to be demolished or removed, and replaced by flying bridges, ‘ponts volants’. 1870 H. C. Alexander Life Joseph Addison Alexander I. 314 They crossed the Po on a pont volant and entered the Austrian dominions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1710
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