Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dismount
plural dismountings
- The act of one who dismounts.
The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales
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dismounting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dismounting
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