Remount

//ɹiːˈmaʊnt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment.

    "to give somebody a remount"

  2. 2
    a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle wordnet
  3. 3
    The process of mounting a drive or volume again.
  4. 4
    The restaging of a play or film.

    "Sometimes I tell people she is auditioning for a remount of the musical “Hair”."

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    provide with fresh horses wordnet
  3. 3
    To help (someone) back on a horse. transitive
  4. 4
    mount again, as after disassembling something wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    mount again wordnet
  2. 7
    To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again. transitive

    "Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles."

  3. 8
    To ascend (something) again. transitive
  4. 9
    To fix (something) back into position. transitive
  5. 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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