▪ I. montant1 ? Obs.
(ˈmɒntənt)
In 5 mountaunt.
[a. F. montant, pres. pple. of monter to rise, mount, used subst.]
= muntin. Also attrib.
| 1449 in Cal. Proc. Chanc. Q. Eliz. (1830) II. Pref. 55 Beames, mountaunts,..rafturs. 1723 Chambers tr. Le Clerc's Treat. Archit. I. 108 Without the Chambranle is a Plat-Band..called a Montant or Window-post. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 228 Muntins or Montants. 1838 Civ. Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 150/1 They [i.e. the piles] were driven in panels (montants) of sixteen feet. Ibid., Two other similar pieces were then placed near the top of the ‘montant’ piles. Ibid. 150/2 Additional ties..were notched on to the ‘montant’ pieces. |
▪ II. † montant2 Obs. rare.
Also 6 montanto.
[a. F. montant ‘an upright blow, or thrust’ (Cotgr.), subst. use of montant pr. pple.: see prec. The form montanto is fictitious It. or Sp.; Prof. Skeat compares Sp. montante ‘two-handed sword’ (Minsheu).]
A ‘downright’ blow or thrust.
| 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. v, I would teach these nineteene [gentlemen], the speciall rules, as your Punto,..your Passada, your Montanto: till they could all play very neare..as well as my selfe. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. ii. iii. 27 To see thee fight,..to see thee passe thy puncto,..thy distance, thy montant. [1599 ― Much Ado i. i. 30, I pray you, is Signior Mountanto return'd from the warres?] |