mounting-block

noun

1. a block of stone formerly used to aid a person when mounting a horse

Example Sentences

On reaching the door of your companion’s residence, whom we will suppose to be in this case a lady,—though the same attention may well be extended to a gentleman,—drive close to the mounting-block or curb, and by heading your horse toward the middle of the road, and slightly backing the wagon, separate the fore and hind wheels on the side next the block as much as possible.

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A doorway with a mounting-block outside it, in "well-to-do" houses, admits into a vaulted recess, from which a passage, dimly lighted, conducts into the courtyard, round which the house is built, or into the house itself.

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He aided her to her feet, untied the horses, and offered her his hand for a mounting-block.

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If she were not, she felt she couldn't go, and since he was going— When she got down to the gate the only person in sight was Julia, drawing rein by the new white mounting-block at the gate.

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The night wore on; I squeezed through the unyielding pack of frieze coats and shawls in the doorway, and with feet that momently swelled in my pumps I limped over the cobble-stones to smoke my eighth cigarette on the mounting-block.

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