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Webster 1828 Edition


Dismounting

DISMOUNTING

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ppr.
Throwing from a horse; unhorsing; removing from an elevation; throwing or removing from carriages.

Definition 2024


dismounting

dismounting

English

Verb

dismounting

  1. present participle of dismount

Noun

dismounting (plural dismountings)

  1. The act of one who dismounts.
    • 1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
      The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.