But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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