Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of countermarch
nouncountermarching (plural countermarchings)
plural countermarchings
- A countermarch.
[…] every private man was fit to command, and their wheelings, marchings, countermarchings, and exercise, were done with such order and readiness, that the distinct words of command were hardly of any use among them […]
1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC
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