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Remount

noun
1.
A fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle.
verb
1.
Mount again.
2.
Mount again, as after disassembling something.
3.
Provide with fresh horses.





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... time—twenty prisoners in all, among them the priest of the band. Our colonel has just arrived, so I am in luck; he will be delighted. See the prisoners are being brought up to him now; but you had better remount and present yours in a ...
— Stories By English Authors: Italy • Various
... without it, and buy a new one, than to run the risk and encounter the trouble of his climb. However, he did manage to reach it, and put it on with some satisfaction, when, as he was beginning to remount, a considerable mass of chalk crumbled away under his feet, and made him cling on with both hands to avoid being precipitated. He had been able to get down well enough, because, if the chalk slipped, he ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar
... and glistening like bronze fresh from the furnace—some of them, however, bleeding from the scratches they have received—spring upon their feet, re-adjust the jergas on the backs of their horses, and once more remount. ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
... I stopped at Moascar, which was the main depot of the Australian Remount Service, and there I found him. He is a man of about sixty, with long mustaches and strong aquiline features—very like the type of American plainsman that Frederic Remington so well portrayed. He has lived everything that he ...
— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt
... understands its role when it pushes matter in the direction of spatiality; but has metaphysics understood its role when it has simply trodden in the steps of physics, in the chimerical hope of going further in the same direction? Should not its own task be, on the contrary, to remount the incline that physics descends, to bring back matter to its origins, and to build up progressively a cosmology which would be, so to speak, a reversed psychology? All that which seems positive to the physicist ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson


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