DISMOUNT

v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To come down; to descend. [Poetic] But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser.

2.
v.

To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.

3.
v.

To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like. Dismounted from his authority. Barrow.

4.
v.

To throw or remove from a horse; to unhorse; as, the soldier dismounted his adversary.

5.
v.

To take down, or apart, as a machine.

6.
v.

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.

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