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Webster 1913 Edition


Dismount

Dis-mount′

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dismounted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dismounting
.]
[Pref.
dis-
+
mount
: cf. OF.
desmonter
, F.
démonter
.]
1.
To come down; to descend.
[Poetic]
But now the bright sun ginneth to
dismount
.
Spenser.
2.
To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast;
as, the troops
dismounted
.

Dis-mount′

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
Dismounted
from his authority.
Barrow.
2.
To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse;
as, the soldier
dismounted
his adversary
.
3.
(Mech.)
To take down, or apart, as a machine.
4.
To throw or remove from the carriage, or from that on which a thing is mounted; to break the carriage or wheels of, and render useless; to deprive of equipments or mountings; – said esp. of artillery.

Webster 1828 Edition


Dismount

DISMOUNT

,
Verb.
I.
[dis and mount.]
1.
To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered his troops to dismount.
2.
To descend from an elevation.

DISMOUNT

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
2.
To throw or bring down from any elevation.
3.
To throw or remove cannon or other artillery from their carriages; or to break the carriages or wheels, and render guns useless.

Definition 2024


dismount

dismount

English

Noun

dismount (plural dismounts)

  1. (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
    A stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.

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Verb

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to get off (something)
    She carefully dismounted from the horse.
  2. (computing, transitive) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use
    The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
  3. To come down; to descend.
    • Spenser
      But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.

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