Remount
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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”."
- 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
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman remunter, Middle French remonter, later also reinforced by re- + mount.
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