dismountableadj.
/dɪsˈmaʊntəb(ə)l/ Capable of being dismounted. Of a gun or cannon: capable of being removed from its carriage for transport.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > taken apart > able to be taken apart
dismountable1711
demountable1904
take-apart1904
1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 168 The garrison had a battery..which..was not dismountable, by reason of its lowness.
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 789/2 A gun made dismountable, that it may be easily carried by men or animals.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 9/1 The gun is provided with..dismountable shields.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 81/3 About 50 black-and-white steers are early weaned in these home-made dismountable pens along one side of the dry cows' shed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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