mounter

mounter

English

Etymology

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English mount
English -er
English mounter

    From mount + -er.

    Noun

    mounter (plural mounters)

    1. One who mounts.
    2. A tool or device used to mount.
    3. (slang, obsolete) A person hired to swear to something that is false.
      • 1816, Means of improving the condition of the poor, Thomas Williams, page 31:
        […] perjury reaches the most awful height. I have heard of mounters, who attend Westminster Hall and other courts, to swear to any thing that may be required of them, for a trifling fee.

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    References

    • (false swearer): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

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