Word Finder - dismounted

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To (cause to) get off (something).

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She carefully dismounted from the horse.

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To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

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To come down; to descend.

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To throw (cannon) off their carriages.

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Having gotten off one's horse, or been removed from its usual mounting, as with a statue off its pedestal, a framed picture from a wall, or a chandelier hanging from a ceiling.

They dismounted and entered the tent.

Rob dismounted slowly and stretched.

She dismounted and held out the reins to him.

Darian dismounted and lifted Claire off the horse, settling her gently beneath a tree.

She dismounted and watched the men walk up to the ruins.

Darian dismounted and pulled out his sword.

She dismounted and tossed the cloak over the horse's saddle, looking for the face she sought.

They stopped at the spring where they had found the dead longhorn bull years ago and dismounted to let the horses rest.

When they returned to the stable, Gerald dismounted and staggered.

Taran dismounted, hands shaking.

After speaking to the senior French officer, who came out of the house with a white handkerchief tied to his sword and announced that they surrendered, Dolokhov dismounted and went up to Petya, who lay motionless with outstretched arms.

At the bottom of the trail they dismounted and walked their horses for a while.

Sam halted Red and dismounted gracefully.

The horses were not trained for European shock-tactics, nor did the country offer charging room, and though melees of mounted men engaging with sword and pistol were not infrequent, the usual method of fighting was dismounted fire action, which was practised with uncommon skill by the troopers on both sides.

He himself and all the young nobles of his staff dismounted and led the infantry forward again, the prince threw his baton into the enemy's lines for the soldiers to retrieve, and in the end, after a bitter struggle, the Bavarians, whose reserves had been taken away to oppose Turenne in the Merzhausen defile, abandoned the entrenchments and disappeared into the woods of the adjoining spur.

About 8 rifled guns and 19 smoothbores were dismounted or disabled and 4 and 1 temporarily put out of action respectively.

After a severe hand-to-hand struggle, in which the troops behaved with great gallantry, order was restored and the enemy repulsed, with the aid of the fire from the 1st Brigade square and from dismounted cavalry.

A squadron of the 9th Royal Lancers, which was dismounted in the thick bush, was driven back with the loss of 9 men; but elsewhere the Arabs never succeeded in closing, and the troops returned to Suakin in the afternoon, leaving the East Surrey regiment in a zeriba covering some low hills near Hashin village.

For the devices employed against the Scottish schiltrons of pikemen at Dupplin and Halidon, were the same as those which won all the great battles of the Hundred Years Warthe combination of archery, not with cavalry (the old system of Hastings and Falkirk), but with dismounted menat-arms. The nation, meanwhile prosperous, not vexed by overmuch taxation, and proud of its young king, was ready and willing to follow him into any adventure that he might indicate.

Leading him over the last rise and onto the open plateau, she dismounted.

In the first year of the war, the Iraqi Army attacked Iranian cities such as Khorramshahr with armored forces without dismounted infantry.

Bagration rode round the ranks that had marched past him and dismounted.

Nastasya Ivanovna dismounted to pick it up.

Rostov dismounted, gave his horse to the orderly, and followed Alpatych to the house, questioning him as to the state of affairs.

The officer in the scarf dismounted, called up a drummer, and went with him into the arcade.

Leaning into one stirrup, she forced her other leg over the back of the horse and dismounted.

Tiny drops of rain spattered their faces as she took his hand again and dismounted.

At the creek Cade drew up and dismounted.

At the barn Alex helped Carmen off the horse and dismounted.

In second line were two brigades and the cavalry (dismounted).

On the 8th of December Murat reached Vilna, whilst Ney with about 400 men and Wrede with 2000 Bavarians still formed the rearguard; but it was quite impossible to carry out Napoleon's instructions to go into winter quarters about the town, so that the retreat was resumed on the 10th and ultimately Konigsberg was attained on the 9th of December by Murat with 400 Guards and 600 Guard cavalry dismounted.

Bordeaux led them into a dish shaped depression at the top of a dune and then dismounted.

They then dismounted from the wounded horse who bled to death that night & got home to Beanston with great difficulty.

These guns became part of the Rotor system and were not dismounted until the 1950s.

Climbing the final hill we stayed in our pedals, having never once dismounted to walk throughout the entire journey.

The Portable can be easily dismounted for use, utilizing the internal 9V battery or mains power.

Napoleon looked up and down the river, dismounted, and sat down on a log that lay on the bank.

He dismounted, took Balashev's arm, and moving a few steps away from his suite, which waited respectfully, began to pace up and down with him, trying to speak significantly.

The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mustache at the orderly's tone, dismounted, gave his horse to a dispatch runner, and approached Bolkonski with a slight bow.

Napoleon with his suite rode up to the Shevardino Redoubt where he dismounted.

At last the weary troopers dismounted and bivouacked near the farm of Mont St Jean.

Bordeaux dismounted, surveying the camp, landscape and men in one rolling glance.

Aaron dismounted and nodded toward the pond.

The simplicity is great; they can be quickly mounted and dismounted; the correct gauge can be perfectly maintained; the sections of rails and sleepers (which are of iron) are very portable, and skilled labour is not required to lay or to take them up; the making of a " turn-out " is easy, by taking out a 15 ft.

It is probable that the usual three "battles" were drawn up in line, each with its archers on the flanks and the dismounted men-at-arms in the centre; the archers being thrown forward in wedge-shaped salients, almost exactly as at Crecy.

Here he dismounted, and stopped beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon.

Napoleon said something to Alexander, and both Emperors dismounted and took each other's hands.

Only the delighted "Uncle" dismounted, and cut off a pad, shaking the hare for the blood to drip off, and anxiously glancing round with restless eyes while his arms and legs twitched.

Pierre and the adjutant dismounted and walked up the hill on foot.

Denisov did not reply; he rode up to Petya, dismounted, and with trembling hands turned toward himself the bloodstained, mud-bespattered face which had already gone white.