Definitions for: Dismount

[n] the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.)
[v] get off (a horse)

Webster (1913) Definition: Dis*mount", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Dismounted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Dismounting.] [Pref. dis- + mount: cf. OF.
desmonter, F. d['e]monter.]
1. To come down; to descend. [Poetic]

But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
--Spenser.

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

Dis*mount", v. t.
1. To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor
and authority, or the like.

Dismounted from his authority. --Barrow.

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

3. (Mech.) To take down, or apart, as a machine.

4. 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.

Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse

See Also: come down, descend, discontinuance, discontinuation, fall, go down

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