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🐎 A new horse 🔧 To put back 🚴 To get on again 🐎 To give new horses
to remount

to remount

9.8
To provide fresh horses to replace tired or injured ones
  • verb
  • /rɪˈmaʊnt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : reponer caballos

Examples

  • allowing you to remount your stallion.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • Four horses, supplies, old clothes, remount horses at Lordsville and guns-

    Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)

  • The cavalry had to remount their horses quickly to chase after the enemy.

  • After a short break, the riders remounted to continue their journey across the fields.

  • The squadron will remount with fresh horses to ensure they can complete their mission.

Antonyms

to exhaust
68 3.7

To use up all of a supply or resource

Surface Forms

remount infinitive
remounted past
remounted past participle
remounting present participle
remounts third person singular

Morphology

remount = mount (semi-transparent) = re + mount

Formally re- + mount is clear, but the sense 'to provide with fresh horses' departs from a simple 'mount again' reading and is a specialized extension.

Etymology

Remount is made of re- 'again' and mount 'to get on'. So to remount a unit is to give it fresh horses so the riders can 'get on again'.