Sponson
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sponson is a noun meaning (nautical, aviation, military) A projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
Meaning
(nautical, aviation, military) A projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
More Meanings
- (nautical, aviation, military, transitive, often with the particle "out") To mount on a projection on the side of a vessel.
Example Sentences
The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside
He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits ; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
Word Forms
- sponsons
- sponsing
- sponsoning
- sponsoned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sponcon, snozzle, waterspout, sandspout, springboard, scooper.
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