Crossword clues for dismount
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dismount \Dis*mount"\, v. t.
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To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
Dismounted from his authority.
--Barrow. To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
(Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.
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.
Dismount \Dis*mount"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dismounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dismounting.] [Pref. dis- + mount: cf. OF. desmonter, F. d['e]monter.]
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To come down; to descend. [Poetic]
But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
--Spenser. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context gymnastics English) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) to get off (something) 2 (context computing transitive English) to make a mounted drive unavailable for use 3 To come down; to descend.
WordNet
Usage examples of "dismount".
And they dismounted and sat down to watch the colorful birds the Absarokee call the-bird-that-makes-many-sounds.
Chance grimly holding on as he sprawled half astraddle the outlaw when a lone rider dismounted and a pair of boots appeared within their line of vision.
Lance Major Wace to ready the troop for battle and, with Troop Guide Bikaner, rode forward a ways, then dismounted and went on foot until we could see the valley in front.
It was not a comfortable day, and when that evening Ranald came and asked if he could assist her to dismount, and said that he wished to learn the ways of the birds, so that he could fly one while Lady Maura was oath-bound not to do so, she was short with him.
Thirty minutes later a very suspicious Blake Ravenscroft dismounted in front of Seacrest Manor, near Bournemouth, Dorset.
Gray-robed servants ran forward and held the horses while Chanar and Koja dismounted.
Unlike all others who passed through the gate, Chanar refused to dismount, remaining in his saddle as his stocky white mare pranced up the hill.
He had refused to dismount from his destrier, which had a steel chanfron to protect its face and a trapper of gleaming mail to shield its body from the English archers who were no doubt stringing their bows in the entrenchments.
Moving under the trees, the claybank shied, catching the scent first, and Placido Geist dismounted, knowing the mare had her own queer horse reasons.
He helped Elinor dismount, then dismounted himself and led the way up a lovely wooded path where dogwoods waved their creamy, cuplike blossoms overhead.
Dean Folan dismounted behind her, leaving Will Danza sitting on his horse, keeping watch from his elevated vantage point.
They both dismounted and Jim led Drumfire, while she followed in his tracks leading the mare and staying close to her flank.
I dismounted from the stool, anxious to get to the Strumbermian higher councils and prove that Earthians were True Humanoids.
Electra dismounted, and Nada resumed her human form and donned her dress, panties, and slippers, which Electra had carried in her knapsack.
I laughed at him, as I knew it was all a cheat, and I followed him to the house with the idea of making the young imposter dismount from her high horse, as I had done in similar cases in England and Metz.