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remount
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Word definitions for remount in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remount \Re*mount"\ (r?-mount"), v. t. & i. To mount again.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle v. mount again; "he remounted his horse" mount again, as after dissembling something provide with fresh horses; "remount a regiment"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a remount. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To go up again; to rise another time. (from 15th c.) 2 (context transitive English) ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also re-mount , late 14c., "put on horseback again," also "return to a former state," from Old French remonter "to climb up, ascend again," from re- (see re- ) + monter (see mount (v.)). From late 15c. as "to go up again," 1620s as "to raise (something) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But he was able to remount , leaving Steadman to escape on foot with the box containing the money. ▪ Deciding to return later, he remounted his bike and returned to his police house. ▪ He scrubbed out the map with his boot before ...
Usage examples of remount.
Marchmont by the hand, and assuring him he would weigh well all he had said, and take no measure till he had again consulted with him, remounted his horse, and slowly walked it back to Cleves.
Barney and the girl remounted and the little cavalcade moved forward through the ballium and the great gate into the court beyond.
Bakhtiian managed Myshla, who was more amiable than the tarpan remounts.
It only remained to remount as quickly as possible, and this was infuriatingly difficult.
Alpha planets to set up detectors and remount the projectors which could kill us.
Already at the end of June there were signs that the Boers realised how helpless Lord Roberts was until his remounts should arrive.
Dik, then had his patrol remount and ride on, drawing his flankers in tighter since the broad, cultivated fields to either side left insufficient cover to hide ambushers, and if any force should come out of the distant woods, the open stretches they would be forced to cover would allow for more than adequate warning.
Remounting our horses, we entered the large corral, and as fast as they were selected the different outfits were either roped or driven singly through a guarded gate.
But the cliff was too steep and they remounted their horses and vanished from sight.
Had it not been, he would have reacted to what was happening on the skyline before he remounted his porp and turned her seaward.
Lesh and her companions had remounted their floater, to take advantage of the coolness of the gas in its bladders before sunshine increased its buoyancy and obliged them to have it hauled down, and that lucky chance had spared their lives.
Use gazed at her, eyes narrowed, then nodded, tucked the bag back under her shawl and remounted behind her prisoner.
Conrad remounted, drew Parsifal back as Fntz let off the wagon brake and raised a hellish shriek of metal against metal.
He put his sash back over his shoulder, remounted, and rode off at a trot toward the hazy blue plateaus that marked the southern horizon.
Tomas let out a theatrical whoop and laughed, while Pug remounted, the soldiers nearby attempted to restrain their own amusement.