remount

Verb

remount (third-person singular simple present remounts, present participle remounting, simple past and past participle remounted)

1. (intransitive) To go up again; to rise another time.
   • They remounted together to their sitting-room while Sir Claude, who said he would join them later, remained below to smoke and to converse with the old acquaintances that he met wherever he turned.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
2. (transitive) To help (someone) back on a horse.
3. (intransitive) To get back on a horse, bicycle etc.
   • And, as it fell, his steed he ready found; / On whom remounting fiercely forth he rode […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
   • We remounted and took up the same hard tempo.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 31
4. (transitive) To get back on (an animal, vehicle) again.
   • Still agitated, she watched resentfully as two traffic policemen remounted their motorcycles.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 378
5. (transitive) To ascend (something) again.
6. (transitive) To fix (something) back into position.
7. (transitive) To mount (a drive or volume) again.

Noun

IPA/ˈɹiːmaʊnt/

remount (plural remounts)

1. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting; specifically, a fresh horse, with its equipment.
   • to give somebody a remount
2. The process of mounting a drive or volume again.
3. The restaging of a play or film.
   • Sometimes I tell people she is auditioning for a remount of the musical “Hair”.2012, Kirsten Van Ritzen, The Comedy Diva Diaries, page 17
   • By mid-January they announced a remount of the television classic Peter Pan.2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical, page 232