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mounting block

mounting block noun: a small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.

Noun

mounting block (plural mounting blocks)

  1. (historical) A small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.
    • The Sun Inn is an attractive black-and-white building, and has an old mounting block outside as a reminder of the days when horsepower meant four legs and a saddle.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150

Forms of mounting block

pluralmounting blocks

Questions about mounting block

What does mounting block mean?
Mounting block means a small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.
What part of speech is mounting block?
Mounting block is a noun.
What is the plural of mounting block?
The plural of mounting block is mounting blocks.

Words near mounting block in the dictionary

  1. Mountforts
  2. mountie
  3. mounties
  4. mounting
  5. mounting a horse foaled by an acorn
  6. mounting block
  7. mounting blocks
  8. mounting St. George
  9. mounting the high horse
  10. mounting up
  11. mountingly

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