(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:45:06

Tete`-de-pont" (?), n.; pl. Tetes-de-pont (#). [F., head of a bridge.] Mil.

A work thrown up at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy, for covering the communications across a river; a bridgehead.

 

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