mounter

English

Etymology

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.

References

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

Anagrams

• monture, remount