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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mount
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attempt/mount a rescue (=try to rescue someone)
▪ The stormy conditions made it impossible to mount a rescue.
growing/mounting concern
▪ Growing concern has been expressed over the pollution of the North Sea.
growing/mounting criticism
▪ The government was faced with mounting criticism at home and abroad.
growing/mounting excitement
▪ The children waited with growing excitement.
growing/mounting opposition (=opposition that is increasing)
▪ There was growing opposition to the war.
growing/mounting unrest
▪ Rocketing unemployment led to growing unrest in the country.
growing/mounting/rising panic (=increasing panic)
▪ She quickly packed a bag, trying all the time to control her mounting panic.
growing/rising/mounting anger
▪ There is growing anger among drivers over the rise in fuel prices.
hold/mount/stage an exhibition formal (= have an exhibition)
▪ Hayward Gallery is mounting an impressive exhibition of new British artists.
hold/stage/mount a protest
▪ Opponents of the plan have staged several protests.
increasing/growing/mounting/rising tension
▪ There are reports of increasing tension in some areas.
increasing/mounting anxiety
▪ There is mounting anxiety about the rise in violent crime.
increasing/mounting pressure
▪ There was increasing pressure on the Chancellor to cut petrol tax.
launch/mount a campaign (=begin a campaign)
▪ They have launched a campaign to end world poverty.
launch/mount a search (=start a search)
▪ A massive search was launched for the former soldier.
lead/mount an attack
▪ The King now prepared to mount an attack on Granada.
mount/launch an expedition (=plan, organize, and begin an expedition)
▪ Ornithologists are mounting an expedition to the island in order to study the birds.
stage/mount/launch a coup (=attempt one)
▪ Later that year, the rebels staged an unsuccessful coup.
take/make/mount a stand (against sth)
▪ We have to take a stand against racism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assault
▪ The police mounted an early-morning assault on his office, and Mr Bucaram came running out with his hands up.
▪ Jones mounted a quick two-fisted assault and the title changed hands in those brief, dramatic seconds.
▪ The idea of secular power in itself meant little before the propagandists of the eleventh-century papal reform mounted their assault on it.
attack
▪ Three men had mounted an incompetent attack on Trent at Bacalar.
▪ Prevention is quiet, but politicians who mount all-out attacks on symptoms generate great publicity.
▪ Instead, the Republicans are expected to mount legal attacks on the environmental measures.
▪ He then turned on the assembled crowd and mounted a scathing verbal attack on them.
▪ North overcame the West 2-0 rather more easily, West hardly mounting a worthwhile attack.
▪ No Soviet figure, let alone such a prominent one, had ever mounted such an attack in the Western press.
▪ They said the case was prejudiced by a campaign by the Communist party to mount a political attack on Fiat.
bid
▪ However, if we continue to have a milder climate, it could mount a takeover bid in the garden.
▪ Conservative Washington commentator Patrick Buchanan, 58, is a perennial contender, having mounted losing bids in 1992 and this year.
▪ They would rather mount their own bid.
▪ A crucial factor upon which it will depend is the speed at which management-employee buy-out teams can mount bids.
▪ The fans are mounting their own bid for a voice in the game.
▪ Tomkins shares fell 7p to 276p on fears it is planning to mount a bid.
campaign
▪ A £1 million campaign had been mounted against pro-field sports candidates.
▪ At length, criticism of the Smokey Bear campaign began to mount.
▪ A very much smaller advertising campaign was therefore mounted in the press and on commercial television.
▪ I shall call him Jack, the man we watched slowly disintegrate as the excitement of the campaign mounted.
▪ Such a campaign should be mounted by the Home Office and not left simply to chief constables.
challenge
▪ It costs many hundreds of thousands to mount a challenge like this.
▪ Above all, the Arts and Crafts movement mounted a moral challenge to the modern project.
▪ Today they were given approval to mount a High Court Challenge over the coroner's conduct.
▪ Moving quickly to mount the strongest possible challenge for the seat long held by Sen.
▪ Also Tuesday, opposition leaders said they will mount a new challenge to riot police blocking protest marches.
▪ We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge.
▪ It did not mount a sustained challenge against globally-organised capitalism, concentrated state power or even prevailing discrimination against homosexuals.
debt
▪ Small debts could rapidly mount up and begin to exert intolerable pressure on the relationship between husband and wife. 1.
▪ And as debt mounts up, so too do the debt interest payments.
effort
▪ He mounted the slope with effort, breathing hard.
▪ And leaders of both parties have been discouraging their rank-and-file from mounting other efforts to challenge the committee recommendation.
▪ To mount a significant space effort takes decades.
evidence
▪ But there is no evidence that he mounted a critique of the position in which women were placed in his society.
▪ Indirect evidence of mounting demographic pressure is also provided by the steady destruction of the forests.
▪ But evidence is mounting that Ecstasy can cause permanent brain damage.
▪ Although the evidence was mounting that leprosy was contagious, the view was not unanimously held.
▪ The report investigated seven cases in detail, and in four of them said there was sufficient evidence to mount a prosecution.
▪ The two probes were merged as evidence of misspent funds mounted.
▪ Introduction Evidence has mounted that the incidence of childhood leukaemia can be increased by population mixing, particularly in a rural area.
▪ No one knew by whom but the circumstantial evidence seemed to be mounting up.
exhibition
▪ To mark the completion of the inventory, the Museum is mounting an exhibition which runs until 19 July.
▪ From time to time, though, he would mount an exhibition.
▪ The director Peter Volkwein plans to mount exhibitions and encourage symposia, discussions and concerts of concrete music.
▪ A decision to mount temporary, changing exhibitions should help resolve this problem.
horse
▪ A groan burst from his lips as he mounted his horse, and for a second the world swam before his eyes.
▪ Russell mounted his horse, rode off, and rode back at full gallop toward the trailer.
▪ Sharpe wearily mounted his fresh horse.
▪ Quickly the king's son mounted his horse again and rode back over forty-nine kingdoms.
▪ He had mounted the Dragoon's horse and was leading the tired mare by her reins.
▪ Knight, mounting his horse, wearing chain mail of the type developed from eastern sources during Barbarossa's reign.
▪ Scathach led the way to the gate, pulled it down again and mounted his own horse.
▪ Now, when you mount a horse, you simply push your boot in to the stirrup.
operation
▪ Officers mounted the operation to compile evidence against seven men from around the North-East allegedly involved in the conspiracy.
▪ The next morning, we mounted another operation.
▪ I'd naively thought they could mount some low-profile operation to catch Andy watching his own funeral.
▪ But, on the second day, the police mounted a paramilitary-style operation to clear the entrance forcibly.
▪ They may experience rather more difficulty in mounting a similar operation against Kilkenny, though.
pavement
▪ The car mounted a pavement, struck a wall, hit the children and smashed into a lamppost.
▪ It mounted a pavement, smashed a lamp-post and ended up on its roof in the middle of the road.
▪ The woman suffered head injuries after she was mowed down by a car which mounted the pavement.
▪ I swung Armstrong to the right and mounted the pavement on my side, not more than twenty feet from him.
▪ With the scream of a falling bomb the car mounted the pavement and crossed it on to the road the other side.
▪ The pursuer threw himself aside as the vehicle mounted the pavement, slamming into a lamp-post.
pressure
▪ Meanwhile, the pressure to drop Hick mounts.
▪ This danger, and with it speculative pressures, mounts each time doubts arise that the Maastricht treaty will be ratified.
▪ The news leaked out last weekend, and pressure has mounted on the justice minister, Oliviero Diliberto, to investigate.
▪ Last night pressure was mounting on Buckingham Palace to officially confirm or deny the claims.
▪ The sense of pressure was mounting.
production
▪ It will mount productions in West End theatres, and hopes to sign star actors to short-term contracts.
▪ He promised to mount a production of one of our choices.
▪ It didn't work, and we're going to mount another production before spring of next year.
▪ The firm is aware of the problem and will fit rubber-mounted bars on production models.
protest
▪ Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.
search
▪ He phoned an animal helpline, which got the Devon moor's rangers to mount a search.
▪ Seventy five officers - some armed - mounted a search.
stair
▪ He crossed the landing and mounted the narrow stairs to the attics.
▪ Sometime in the night Katie wandered upstairs, and Nadal followed, mounting the stairs silently.
▪ In the end I gave in and reluctantly mounted the narrow stairs.
▪ Once under drugs, granny rose from her ground-floor death bed and with uncontrollable strength began to mount the stairs.
▪ In a lull, she drifted up to see to the babies, but misjudged mounting the stair.
▪ He began to mount the uncarpeted stairs.
▪ He sighed deeply then mounted the stairs and looked around him slowly.
▪ As Big Ben struck two little Alistair mounted the stairs.
tension
▪ But if tensions mount and interest rates rise, the cost of non-interest-bearing deposits would rise in parallel.
▪ As tension between his parents mounted, Scott, who was then about three, began to get more belligerent and combative.
▪ They were running through thickly forested country, and tension began to mount in the car.
▪ As the tension mounted, Mr Newhouse himself began firing people with little warning.
▪ As the tension mounted, Mal Donaghy and Le Saux were booked for rash challenges.
▪ A crowd formed. Tension mounted.
▪ List the particular circumstances which cause frustration and stressful tension to mount.
▪ The predominant sensation is one of tension, which steadily mounts until it becomes unbearable.
wall
▪ Ample space for large breakfast table. Wall mounted central heating controls.
▪ One built-in meter cupboard. Wall mounted electric heater.
▪ The controls of Deborah's machinery were wall mounted, it was Geoffrey himself who had designed this.
▪ Power points. Wall mounted electric heater.
▪ Secondary double glazed window with views over the golf course. wall mounted electric heater.
▪ Built-in airing cupboard. Wall mounted electric heater.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Once under drugs, granny rose from her ground-floor death bed and with uncontrollable strength began to mount the stairs.
▪ At length, criticism of the Smokey Bear campaign began to mount.
▪ This little group begins to mount a hill.
▪ The costs had begun to mount significantly by 1975.
▪ They were running through thickly forested country, and tension began to mount in the car.
▪ He began to mount the uncarpeted stairs.
▪ Twelve rocks, well rounded from previous use, began to mount above each other in a crazy mushroom shape.
▪ The other factor was public opinion, and pressure from opposition groups began to mount.
continue
▪ In addition we will continue to mount major specials to ensure the big issues of the day are thoroughly explained and debated.
▪ Even the lag in educational attainment that continued to mount from the late 1970s did not account for the differences.
▪ Lack of Administrative Communication Job anxieties within the entire contingent continued, and dissatisfaction mounted.
▪ Their frustration continued to mount, prompting the March demonstration.
start
▪ Fuel costs were really starting to mount up, so I felt I had to contribute something.
▪ But as the General Election approaches, problems start to mount.
▪ Problems started to mount for the G8 leaders in the 1990s, but they failed to respond to the challenge.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anxiety about job security mounted at the plant after profits fell by 68%.
▪ As the dispute continues, tension is mounting on the border between the two countries.
▪ Can you help Shelly mount?
▪ Costs on the project have been mounting up steadily.
▪ Farmers' anxiety over the drought has mounted.
▪ He mounted the pony and rode off.
▪ Newlin is mounting a campaign against drunk drivers.
▪ Reporters shouted questions as Mayor Bradley mounted the steps of City Hall.
▪ She mounted and rode off.
▪ The Tokyo prosecutor's office rarely mounts a case it cannot win.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Haig and Kendall scrambled into their kit as they mounted the engine.
▪ Some guys mounted extended laterals, extended driving sticks.
▪ The crossover is mounted behind the terminal panel at the top rear of the cabinet.
▪ The opposition mounted, but Johnson was probably right in asserting that its strength was overstated.
▪ Westman says he is genuinely optimistic about our ability to solve our mounting social problems.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a while, with their mounts winded, they halted.
▪ Dimly making out figures, he leant forward on his mount, and a volley of fire tore him to the ground.
▪ He cursed, and spurred his long-suffering mount onwards again.
▪ Her unfortunate mount was shocked enough without the sound of any loud voices.
▪ I don't want them stabling their mounts here, it'd be too conspicuous.
▪ Solis was lucky to pick up the mount.
▪ While the inside pairs of animals gently rise and fall, the outside ring mounts are proudly stationary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mount

Mount \Mount\, n. [From Mount, v.] That upon which a person or thing is mounted, especially:

  1. A horse.

    She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount.
    --G. Eliot.

  2. The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Mount

Mount \Mount\, v. t.

  1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb; as, to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon.

    Shall we mount again the rural throne?
    --Dryden.

  2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.

  3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. ``To mount the Trojan troop.''
    --Dryden.

  4. Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.; as, to mount a picture or diploma in a frame

  5. To raise aloft; to lift on high.

    What power is it which mounts my love so high?
    --Shak.

    Note: A fort or ship is said to mount cannon, when it has them arranged for use in or about it.

    To mount guard (Mil.), to go on guard; to march on guard; to do duty as a guard.

    To mount a play, to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc., used in the play.

Mount

Mount \Mount\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounting.] [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. (above).]

  1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

    Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
    --Jer. li. 53.

    The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
    --Cowley.

  2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

  3. To attain in value; to amount.

    Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
    --Pope.

Mount

Mount \Mount\ (mount), n. [OE. munt, mont, mount, AS. munt, fr. L. mons, montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. Cf. Mount, v., Mountain, Mont, Monte, Montem.]

  1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

  2. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.]

    Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
    --Jer. vi. 6.

  3. [See Mont de pi['e]t['e].] A bank; a fund.

  4. (Palmistry) Any one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are taken as significant of the influence of ``planets,'' and called the mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or Apollo, and Venus.

    Mount of piety. See Mont de pi['e]t['e].

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mount

c.1300, "to mount a horse;" mid-14c., "to rise up, ascend; fly," from Old French monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from Vulgar Latin *montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1530s. Sense of "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. Related: Mounted; mounting.

mount

"that on which something is mounted," 1739, from mount (v.). The colloquial meaning "a horse for riding" is first recorded 1856.

mount

"hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- "to stand out, project" (cognates: Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").

Wiktionary
mount

Etymology 1 n. 1 A mountain. 2 (cx palmistry English) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly body. 3 (label en obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound. 4 (label en obsolete) A bank; a fund. Etymology 2

n. 1 An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse 2 A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted. 3 (label en obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division. vb. 1 (lb en heading physical) ''To move upwards.'' 2 #(lb en transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb. 3 #(lb en transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride. 4 #(lb en transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding. 5 #(lb en obsolete transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive ''up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up''. 6 #(lb en obsolete intransitive) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with ''up''. 7 (lb en transitive) To attach (an object) to a support. 8 #(lb en transitive computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system. 9 (lb en intransitive sometimes with ''up'') To increase in quantity or intensity. 10 (lb en obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to). 11 (lb en transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate. 12 #(lb en transitive slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone. 13 (lb en transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.

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WordNet
mount

  1. n. a lightweight horse kept for riding only [syn: saddle horse, riding horse]

  2. the act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to the top" [syn: climb]

  3. a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill [syn: mountain]

  4. mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; "the diamond was in a plain gold mount" [syn: setting]

  5. something forming a back that is added for strengthening [syn: backing]

mount

  1. v. attach to a support; "They mounted the aerator on a floating"

  2. go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" [syn: wax, climb, rise] [ant: wane]

  3. fix onto a backing, setting, or support; "mount slides for macroscopic analysis"

  4. put up or launch; "mount a campaign against pronography"

  5. get on the back of; "mount a horse" [syn: hop on, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on, bestride] [ant: hop out]

  6. go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb, climb up, go up]

  7. prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance; "mount a theater production"; "mount an attack"; "mount a play" [syn: put on]

  8. copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" [syn: ride]

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Wikipedia
Mount

__NOTOC__ Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. "Mount" may also refer to:

Mount (Unix)

Before a user can access a file on a Unix-like machine, the file system that contains it needs to be mounted with the mount command. Frequently mount is used for SD card, USB storage, DVD and other removable storage devices.

The mount command instructs the operating system that a file system is ready to use, and associates it with a particular point in the overall file system hierarchy (its mount point) and sets options relating to its access. Mounting makes file systems, files, directories, devices and special files available for use and available to the user. Its counterpart umount instructs the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it no longer accessible and may be removed from the computer. It is important to umount a device before removing it since changes to files may have only partially been written and are completed as part of the umount.

The mount and umount commands require root user privilege to effect changes. Alternately, specific privileges to perform the corresponding action may have been previously granted by the root user. A file system can be defined as user mountable in the /etc/[[fstab]] file by the root user.

Mount (grappling)

The mount, or mounted position, is a dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head. This is very favourable for the top combatant in several ways. The top combatant can generate considerable momentum for strikes such as punches or elbows to the head of the opponent, while the bottom combatant is restricted by the ground and by the combatant on top. Another advantage are various chokeholds and joint locks which can be applied from the top, while such holds are not feasible from the bottom. The top priority for the bottom combatant is to sweep the opponent or transition into a better position such as the guard.

Mount (computing)

Mounting takes place before a computer can use any kind of storage device (such as a hard drive, CD-ROM, or network share). The user or their operating system must make it accessible through the computer's file system. A user can only access files on mounted media.

Mount (surname)

Mount is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Anson Mount (born 1973), American actor
  • Charles Mount (1928–1995), American artist
  • Ferdinand Mount (born 1939), British writer, novelist and columnist for The Sunday Times
  • Harry Mount (born 1971), British author and journalist
  • Lambton L. Mount (1836–1931), Canadian-born Australian businessman
  • Peggy Mount (1915–2001), English actress
  • Pete Mount (1925–1990), American professional basketball player and father of Rick
  • Rick Mount (born 1947), American professional basketball player and son of Pete
  • William Sidney Mount (1807–1868), American painter
Mount (streaming)

A mount point, in streaming media systems, is a virtual resource which references live or on-demand content within a multimedia media server system. Mount points are used to allow multimedia servers the ability to control multiple content sources and/or types on the same server instance. The mount point name is typically determined in the path location portion of a URI. Channel content and attributes can be stored with mount point definitions and kept separate of global and other mount point settings and limits. This term in streaming media was popularized by the Icecast server and is used in many software products that support it and others like it.

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Usage examples of "mount".

Riding side-by-side, Lorn and Kusyl ride toward the Accursed Forest, turning their mounts onto the wall road.

The sacred screen now before me mounts its head into the dome, and presents an imposing and even an architectonic aspect, but certain details, such as classic mouldings of columns, and a broken entablature, pronounce the edifice to be comparatively modern.

I trust it will not be forgotten, that twenty-five pieces of heavy ordnance have been dragged to the different batteries, mounted, and, all but three, fought by seamen, except one artilleryman to point the guns.

Reprints and anthology appearances of his stories have mounted into the hundreds and the presentations of his stories on radio and television is rapidly approaching the 100 mark.

Lingering monsoons had flooded the lowlands of the Peninsula and piled the snowdrifts high round about the Tower of the Archimage on the southern slope of Mount Brom.

To this Harriet assented, and leaving a message for Chatterton, they entered the coach of Marian, and Pendennyss, mounting the dickey, drove off.

When the young boy, for instance, first mounts his new bicycle, he is unable, except with the most attentive effort and in a most laboured and awkward manner, either to keep his feet on the pedals, or make the handle-bars respond to the balancing of the wheel.

I have seen the goats on Mount Pentelicus scatter at the approach of a stranger, climb to the sharp points of projecting rocks, and attitudinize in the most self-conscious manner, striking at once those picturesque postures against the sky with which Oriental pictures have made us and them familiar.

Fort Bannerman was a small metropolis, for besides the Bay store it had a Mounted Police post, a hospital run by the Grey Nuns, and an Indian school in charge of the Oblate Brothers.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

The youngest was no older than Lan, a dim-looking, shaggy-haired youth mounted bareback on a pony that was just as shaggy, whose main article of clothing was a rough-sewn coat of sheepskin and hat and boots to match.

Assisted by her father Shanna mounted the carriage at last, and the barouche moved briskly away from the dock.

With that Ameronis threw back the coverlet and strode out onto the bartizan and mounted a flight of steps to the battlements.

What chance of getting the Unionaise in Bassin du Sud to mount a counterattack on the landing zone?

Mount Benger, adjoining Altrive Lake, expending his entire capital in the stocking.