counterchange

Meanings

verbcounterchange (third-person singular simple present counterchanges, present participle counterchanging, simple past and past participle counterchanged)

present singular third person counterchanges · participle present counterchanging · participle past counterchanged · past counterchanged

To give and receive; C; to exchange.
To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 89, lines 1781–1782
Synonyms: interchange, checker, freck

nouncounterchange (plural counterchanges)

plural counterchanges

obsoleteAn exchange of one thing for another.
obsoleteDue return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC