dismount

dis- +‎ mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈmaʊnt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊnt

dismount (third-person singular simple present dismounts, present participle dismounting, simple past and past participle dismounted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) get off (something).

   She carefully dismounted from the horse.

   She carefully dismounted the horse.

   • 2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

     Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.

2. (computing, transitive, intransitive) To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.

   The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.

   • 1995, Rick Sant'Angelo, NetWare unleashed (page 1130)

     PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.

3. (intransitive) To come down; to descend.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Aegloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.

4. (military, transitive) To throw (cannon) off their carriages.

• (computing): umount, unmount

• (get off something): get on
• (computing): mount

dismount (plural dismounts)

1. (gymnastics) The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.

   It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.