montoir

English

Etymology

From French, from monter (“to mount”). See montant.

Noun

montoir (plural montoirs)

1. A stone used in mounting a horse.

Synonyms

• horseblock, horse block

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “montoir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Monitor, monitor, tromino

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

montoir m (plural montoirs)

1. montoir; horseblock

Further reading

• “montoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.