DISMOUNT
\dɪsmˈa͡ʊnt], \dɪsmˈaʊnt], \d_ɪ_s_m_ˈaʊ_n_t]\
Definitions of DISMOUNT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
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To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
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To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
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To take down, or apart, as a machine.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.
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To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like.
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To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.
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To take down, or apart, as a machine.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To get off a horse, bicycle, etc.
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To remove from a carriage: said of artillery; to put off from a horse.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To come down: to come off a horse.
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To throw or bring down from any elevated place: to throw off their carriages, as cannon: to unhorse.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To remove from a horse, as a soldier, or from a mounting, as a cannon.
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To get off or alight, as from a horse; come down; descend.
By James Champlin Fernald
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To unhorse; to throw or bring down from an elevation; to throw artillery from their carriages, or to break the carriages or wheels, and render the guns useless; to shatter, as fortifications.
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To alight from a horse; to descend from an elevation.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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