to mount a horse
1mount a horse — ride a horse, ride horseback …
2Horse breaking — Horse breaking, sometimes called starting or gentling, refers to the process used by humans to get horses to let themselves be ridden or harnessed. Before such a learning process is accomplished, a horse will normally reject attempts to ride it.… …
3mount´er — mount1 «mownt», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to go up on or climb up; ascend: »to mount a hill, mount a ladder, mount stairs. It was our design to mount the head waters of the Hudson, to the neighbourhood of Crown Point (Robert Louis Stevenson).… …
4mount — [[t]ma͟ʊnt[/t]] ♦♦♦ mounts, mounting, mounted 1) VERB If you mount a campaign or event, you organize it and make it take place. [V n] The ANC announced it was mounting a major campaign of mass political protests. [V n] ...a security operation… …
5horse — horseless, adj. horselike, adj. /hawrs/, n., pl. horses, (esp. collectively) horse, v., horsed, horsing, adj. n. 1. a large, solid hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties …
6Mount Rushmore — For the 1960s rock band, see Mount Rushmore (band). Mount Rushmore National Memorial IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) …
7mount — mount1 [maunt] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(organize)¦ 2¦(increase)¦ 3¦(horse/bicycle)¦ 4¦(go up)¦ 5¦(picture)¦ 6¦(sex)¦ Phrasal verbs mount up ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: monter to go up , from …
8mount — {{11}}mount (n.1) hill, mountain, mid 13c., from Anglo Fr. mount, O.Fr. mont mountain; also perhaps partly from O.E. munt mountain; both the Old English and the French words from L. montem (nom. mons) mountain, from PIE root *men to stand out,… …
9mount up — verb get up on the back of (Freq. 2) mount a horse • Syn: ↑hop on, ↑mount, ↑get on, ↑jump on, ↑climb on, ↑bestride • Ant: ↑ …
10mount — 01. There is a strike by garbage collection workers here in Jacksonville, so the garbage is really starting to [mount] up. 02. They shot a large moose while out hunting, and [mounted] its head on the wall. 03. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to …