ponter

to build a bridge; to cover a boat with a deck

“[…]c'est le plus petit bateau qu'on ose exposer à la mer du large; il est ponté, d'une construction solide[…]” — […] it is the smallest boat one dares expose to the open sea; it is covered with a deck, solidly built […]

Inherited from Old French pounter. By surface analysis, pont + -er.

to punt, to bet

From pont, the obsolete past participle form of pondre (“to lay, to put”), from Latin ponere.