Usually means: Outriggers extending from ship's sides.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sponson: Merriam-Webster
  2. sponson: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sponson: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sponson: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sponson: Wordnik
  6. sponson: Wiktionary
  7. sponson: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sponson: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sponson: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sponson: Dictionary.com
  11. Sponson: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sponson: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sponson: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Sponson: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sponson: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sponson: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. sponson: TheFreeDictionary.com

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sponson: Latitude Mexico

Definitions from Wiktionary (sponson)

noun:  (nautical, aviation, military) A projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
verb:  (nautical, aviation, military, transitive, often with the particle "out") To mount on a projection on the side of a vessel.

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