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What is a sponson?

What is a sponson? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A projection from the side of a watercraft.
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This is again in the turn, when the right front side or sponson digs into the water and the boat does a barrel roll ending up upside down.
The cutter jingled her full-speed bell while the tackle was still lifting the sponson boat.
An eager gunner endeavoured to pass one of the tanks, but his gun caught the sponson and slipped off into the mud.
A 15-man life raft is installed either side in the forward section of each sponson.
A bomb exploded directly beneath the sponson, where the dead body had fallen.
The battery door is on the aft end of the sponson that houses the port main landing gear.

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