sponson
sponson noun: a projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
Noun
sponson (plural sponsons)
- A projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
- 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,[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
Verb
sponson (third-person singular simple present sponsons, present participle sponsoning, simple past and past participle sponsoned)
- To mount on a projection on the side of a vessel.
- 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 broadside1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899
Forms of sponson
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sponsons |
| alternative form | sponsing |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sponsons |
| present participle | sponsoning |
| past participle | sponsoned |
| past | sponsoned |
Origin of sponson
Perhaps from expansion.
Questions about sponson
- What does sponson mean?
- Sponson means a projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
- What part of speech is sponson?
- Sponson can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of sponson?
- The plural of sponson is sponsons.
Words near sponson in the dictionary
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