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MARCHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
Example:
we heard the sound of marching
Synonyms:
march; marching
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("marching" is a kind of...):
walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marching"):
countermarch ((military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route)
goose step (a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high)
lockstep (a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead)
promenade (a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance)
quick march (marching at quick time)
routemarch (a long training march for troops)
Derivation:
march (march in a procession)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb march
Context examples:
Go to Sir William Felton, I pray you, and ask him to come hither, for it is time that we were marching.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There were to be no ceremonious performances, everything was to be as natural and homelike as possible, so when Aunt March arrived, she was scandalized to see the bride come running to welcome and lead her in, to find the bridegroom fastening up a garland that had fallen down, and to catch a glimpse of the paternal minister marching upstairs with a grave countenance and a wine bottle under each arm.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A quick cross-fire of greetings and questions and rough West Saxon jests flew from rank to rank, or were bandied about betwixt the marching archers and the gazing crowd.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I thought I heard it ere we went down, and now I hear it again. We are saved, comrades! By these ten finger-bones, we are saved! It is the marching song of the White Company. Hush!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then came two-score more archers, ten more men-at-arms, and finally a rear guard of twenty bowmen, with big John towering in the front rank and the veteran Aylward marching by the side, his battered harness and faded surcoat in strange contrast with the snow-white jupons and shining brigandines of his companions.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The four rode alone, for the archers had passed a curve in the road, though Alleyne could still hear the heavy clump, clump of their marching, or catch a glimpse of the sparkle of steel through the tangle of leafless branches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
De Borhunte was up in the east, and Sir John de Montague in the west. Sir Luke de Ponynges, Sir Thomas West, Sir Maurice de Bruin, Sir Arthur Lipscombe, Sir Walter Ramsey, and stout Sir Oliver Buttesthorn were all marching south with levies from Andover, Arlesford, Odiham and Winchester, while from Sussex came Sir John Clinton, Sir Thomas Cheyne, and Sir John Fallislee, with a troop of picked men-at-arms, making for their port at Southampton.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I fear that you are yet a 'prentice to that trade, quoth the soldier; for there is no child over the water but could answer what you ask. Know then that though there may be peace between our own provinces and the French, yet within the marches of France there is always war, for the country is much divided against itself, and is furthermore harried by bands of flayers, skinners, Brabacons, tardvenus, and the rest of them. When every man's grip is on his neighbor's throat, and every five-sous-piece of a baron is marching with tuck of drum to fight whom he will, it would be a strange thing if five hundred brave English boys could not pick up a living.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
