Sentence examples for mounting block from inspiring English sources
noun
A small block, often carved with steps, used for mounting or dismounting a horse at a pub, courthouse etc.
Some people think it was a mounting block for horses.
The dying Jocelin examines a patch by a mounting block.
A large mounting block still stands in the cobbled front yard where once coachmen would have had the horses changed on the Truro to London route.
For beginners who don't yet speak the language or who lack the confidence, stepping on the mounting block and into the saddle is a leap of faith, something like trying for the first time to speak French to a Parisian waiter, except that the risk is not a sneer but falling off the horse.
Standing on a mounting block, I gathered the reins in my left hand, placed my left foot in the left stirrup, my right hand on the bump of a pommel that characterizes the English saddle, and swung my right leg over.
The mounting block consisted of two cylinders with an adjustable connector to accommodate variable bone lengths.
There are still shoes for next season that will require mounting blocks and full medical insurance.
There are mounting blocks and saddle racks, hunting prints, antique jockey hitching posts, old wicker and cast iron chairs.
It features a flat and skillion roof, and concrete mounting blocks.
Briefly, glass syringes were held in padded aluminum mounting blocks.
To make the block: Obtain mounting blocks that will be used for the skateboard deck.
