dismount Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.)
  2. verb alight from (a horse)
    light; unhorse; get off; get down.

WordNet

Dis*mount" intransitive verb
Etymology
Pref. dis- + mount: cf. OF. desmonter, F. démonter.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Dismounted; present participle & verbal noun Dismounting
Definitions
  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" transitive verb
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913