mounting block

noun

A small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.

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Meanings

nounmounting block (plural mounting blocks)

plural mounting blocks

  1. historicalA small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.

    The Sun Inn is an attractive black-and-white building, and has an old mounting block outside as a reminder of the days when horsepower meant four legs and a saddle.

    1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150
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