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Remount
//ɹiːˈmaʊnt// noun, verb
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment.
"to give somebody a remount"
- 2 a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle wordnet
- 3 The process of mounting a drive or volume again.
- 4 The restaging of a play or film.
"Sometimes I tell people she is auditioning for a remount of the musical “Hair”."
Verb
- 1 To go up again; to rise another time. intransitive
"They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned."
- 2 provide with fresh horses wordnet
- 3 To help (someone) back on a horse. transitive
- 4 mount again, as after disassembling something wordnet
- 5 To get back on a horse, bicycle etc. intransitive
"And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […]"
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- 6 mount again wordnet
- 7 To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again. transitive
"Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles."
- 8 To ascend (something) again. transitive
- 9 To fix (something) back into position. transitive
- 10 To mount (a drive or volume) again. transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Anglo-Norman remunter, Middle French remonter, later also reinforced by re- + mount.
Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman remunter, Middle French remonter, later also reinforced by re- + mount.
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