mounting-block

noun

Seeing the Monk standing on his mounting-block, he asked: "What is this good Father saying?"

The word scamillus is a diminutive of scamnum, a mounting-block or bench.

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.

Fanny and Lee turned to their horses, held for them by a groom at a mounting block, and went home.

Britt knelt and gave her his shoulders to serve as a mounting block.

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