sponson
English
Alternative forms
- sponsing (noun only)
Noun
sponson (plural sponsons)
- (nautical) A projection from the side of a watercraft.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- 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, […].
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Verb
sponson (third-person singular simple present sponsons, present participle sponsoning, simple past and past participle sponsoned)
- (nautical, often with the particle "out") to protrude from the side of a vessel
- 1899, John Scott-Keltie (editor), Statesman's Year-Book 1899
- The belted cruiser Paiiiiat 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
- 1899, John Scott-Keltie (editor), Statesman's Year-Book 1899
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