Definition of "countermarching" []

• Present participle of countermarch. (verb)

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• "The five columns stayed in the field for four to five months, crossing and recrossing the various forks of the Red, climbing and descending the caprock, marching and countermarching and following a maddeningly desultory set of trails left by many independent bands of Indians."
• "Much panicky marching and countermarching ensued—so much, in fact, that a skeptical farmer observed drolly that the Rangers would undoubtedly win the war all by themselves “because no government could stand the expense of the shoe-leather we should cost it trying to follow them around.”"
• "That Thorn, who was marching and countermarching in osier beds, and other swampy places, was impressed with"