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Demount

Demount \De*mount"\, v. i. To dismount. [R.]

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demount

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To remove from its mounting; to take down from a mounted position. 2 (context obsolete English) To dismount.

Usage examples of "demount".

The bodies of guards and servitors were heaped behind improvised barricades of furniture and demounted doors.

In my youth, trick-or-treat escapades were tame: soaped windows, upset trash cans, demounted garden gates, toilet-paper festoons on shrubs and β€” in the case of notorious neighborhood ogres β€” walks and porches defiled with smashed jack-o'-lanterns and rotten eggs.

Some of the front panels were demounted and electronic guts hung out, which the scientists tinkered with.

Only one thing was different about this boat β€”in addition to the usual sweeps and rowlocks (which were demounted and strapped to the inside of the hull) it had at the stem a stout fitting to which a pair of traces were snapped, and at the bow twin rings, through which two leather straps came and rested on the forward thwart.