dismounting

English

Verb

dismounting

1. present participle and gerund of dismount

Noun

dismounting (plural dismountings)

1. The act of one who dismounts.
   • 1834, John Dunmore Lang, An Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales:

     The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.