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mounter - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

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Etymology

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From mount +‎ -er.

Noun

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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

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

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