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mounting blocks

mounting blocks is the plural of mounting block.

Meaning of mounting block

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

Questions about mounting blocks

What is mounting blocks the plural of?
Mounting blocks is the plural of mounting block.

Words near mounting blocks in the dictionary

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

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