remount

present singular third person remounts · participle present remounting · participle past remounted · past remounted

1. intransitiveTo go up again; to rise another time.First known use 15th c.

   They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned.

   1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew

2. transitiveTo help (someone) back on a horse.First known use 15th c.
3. intransitiveTo get back on a horse, bicycle etc.First known use 15th c.

   We remounted and took up the same hard tempo.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 31

   1 more example

   And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […]

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

4. transitiveTo get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.First known use 16th c.

   Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.

   2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378

5. transitiveTo ascend (something) again.First known use 17th c.
6. transitiveTo fix (something) back into position.First known use 17th c.
7. transitivecomputingTo mount (a drive or volume) again.

plural remounts

1. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment.

   to give somebody a remount

2. computingThe process of mounting a drive or volume again.
3. The restaging of a play or film.

   By mid-January they announced a remount of the television classic Peter Pan.

   2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical, page 232

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   Sometimes I tell people she is auditioning for a remount of the musical “Hair”.

   2012, Kirsten Van Ritzen, The Comedy Diva Diaries, page 17