mounter
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]mounter (plural mounters)
- One who mounts.
- A tool or device used to mount.
- (slang, obsolete) A person hired to swear to something that is false.
- 1816, Means of improving the condition of the poor, Thomas Williams, page 31:
- […] perjury reaches the most awful height. I have heard of mounters, who attend Westminster Hall and other courts, to swear to any thing that may be required of them, for a trifling fee.
References
[edit]- (false swearer): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary