† marchingn.1
Scottish. Obsolete.
The action of setting and marking the boundaries between lands, properties, etc.
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1488 in C. Innes Registrum Monasterii de Passelet (1832) 406 To gif thaim consale anentis the redding, perambuling and marching of the ald richt markis, marchez and diuisis.
1571 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1847) II. 395 Touching the merching of the..mure of Rattray.
1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI. f. 173, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The stanes to be set at the mercheing of it.
1635 Dumbarton Burgh Rec. (1860) 47 The sheillings erecit on the muir and cast doun at the last marching.
1686 in Trans. Hawick Archaeol. Soc. (1938) 32 Sworne..marchers..betwix neighbour and neighbour annent the marching of thair yards and gavell.
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marchingn.2
/ˈmɑːtʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɑrtʃɪŋ/ 1. The action of march v.2; an instance of this.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > uniform and regular
marching1558
march1661
society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > marching
march1597
marching1720
society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > march > marching
march1575
marching1720
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1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos v. 598 Than come the children furth,..Whome for their fresh araye and comly marching through the felde, The..Troians all with ioye behelde.
1560 Bible (Geneva) 1 Macc. vi. 41 All they that heard the noyce of their multitude, and the marching of the companie,..were astonished.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) iv. iii. 379 No people..vseth lesse Ceremonyes and Pompous shewes or marchings, in festiuall solemnityes, then those of the Vnited Provinces.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 56 The Discipline and Order of their Marchings, Camping and Exercise was excellent.
1855 R. Browning Epist. 27 The country-side is all on fire With rumours of a marching hitherward.
1861 W. H. Russell in Times 24 Sept. The drills..are still of the most elementary character, but their marching is very good indeed.
1914 T. A. Baggs Back from Front xxiv. 122 We paraded for marching at 9 a.m.
1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia xi. 219 There he had told us about the parades, the marchings of the students and the method of acquiring their demands.
1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) ii. v. 89 Eleven years old, a Boy Scout for two months (after which I quit: too much marching and knot-tying).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > move
moving1474
marching1562
march1584
remove1645
removal1662
1562 tr. Damiano da Odemira Pleasaunt Playe of Cheasts i. sig. Avii Beholde here his marchinges, and his libertie, prouided that he haue had no checke.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
marching day n.
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1781 T. Simes Mil. Guide (ed. 3) 8 On marching days, he follows the Major-general of the day with the encampment.
1998 About Today's Corps in rec.arts.marching.drumcorps (Usenet newsgroup) 1 June I will always fondly remember my marching days.
marching front n.
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1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 362/2 The men marched eight abreast... This unusually wide marching front was taken up by the infantry.
marching music n.
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1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 318/1 Thy ways o'er earth, are paved with human bones, Thy ‘marching music’, children's, widows' groans.
1866 T. Carlyle Inaugural Addr. Edinb. 197 A kind of road-melody or marching-music of mankind.
1987 T. Janowitz Cannibal in Manhattan xviii. 129 The missionary's gramophone..included a set of Hawaiian ukelele marching music.
marching parade n.
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1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Postscr. i. xx. 279 Even the roof of the building, might..be made to answer the purpose of a [prisoner's] marching parade.
1965 Polit. Sci. Q. 80 144 The purpose and method of analysis are suggested by the metaphor of ‘a marching parade’ of careers.
C2. † marching malady n. Obsolete (perhaps) (of a horse) illness caused by travelling.
marching camp n. any temporary encampment set up by people on the march; (esp. in Roman History) such an encampment set up by troops of the Roman army.
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1667 S. Woodford Paraphr. Psalms David 338 The Sea farr off the Marching Camp beheld.
1923 R. G. Collingwood Roman Brit. ii. 27 Hadrian's forts were of a type developed out of the traditional marching-camps of the Roman army.
1969 G. Webster Roman Imperial Army 166 One ought to..confine the word ‘camp’ to a marching camp and ‘fort’ to the more permanent establishment. We find that some of the characteristics of the marching camp are carried forward into the more permanent sites.
1991 B. Howell Dandelion Days 184 ‘There can't be a villa here,’ Nigel explained. ‘It's more likely to be part of the marching camp, latrines or a workshop.’
marching jazz n. a style of jazz played originally by marching bands in New Orleans.
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1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets vii. 163 In the marching jazz ensemble, we find the developed polyphonic elements of all true jazz.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. vi. 49 Cornetists, trombonists..marched and played the music of marching jazz.
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1621 J. Taylor Motto sig. A4v I will turne Farrier. I doe not thinke that any Horse-leech can blazon such a pedigree of marching maladies.
marching money n. expenses paid to a soldier on the march; also in extended use.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > pay of troops > soldier's pay > additional > types of
conduct-money1512
conduct1644
belt money1648
riding money1668
batta1680
clearing1689
table money1705
field allowance1744
marching money1837
command allowance1860
command pay1875
1837 Coll. Warrants & Regul. Army (1844) 7 A daily Allowance in South Britain of Marching Money..as the payment to the Innkeeper for the hot meal which he is required to furnish to the Soldier.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 171/1 Marching Money, the additional pay which officers and soldiers receive for the purpose of covering the expenses necessarily incurred when marching from one place to another.
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 46 Marching money, money to travel.
1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers (1964) ii. 18 There were no wages—hardly marching money, even.
marching past n. the action of performing a march past.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > review > march past
march past1832
marching past1833
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. i. 37 In marching past, the Lieutenant-Colonel is to be in front of the leading Troop, with the First Major a little behind him on his left.
1860 Illustr. London News 23 June 598/3 During the marching past the Staff..will be drawn up opposite the Royal standard.
1896 N. Newnham-Davis Three Men & a God 120 On marching-past parade.
marching season n. a season of processions or parades held annually throughout Northern Ireland from 12 July to 12 August in which Protestants (esp. Orangemen) march in celebration of the defeat of the Catholic James II by William III (William of Orange) at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
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1972 Times 30 Mar. 2/1 The most complicated question is the profile the Army should adopt at the start of Ulster's ‘marching season’.
1996 J. Doran Red Doran 30 I think it was the only shop in town to stock Orangemen's outfits, like sashes, black umbrellas and bowler hats... Coming near the marching season the shop windows were always dressed up in this stuff.
marching song n. a song (usually of marked rhythm) sung esp. by marching troops to facilitate keeping step and to maintain morale.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > other types of song
roundelaya1475
black sanctus?1533
pastorella1597
orgial1610
balow1613
comic song1718
hunting-song1727
vaudeville1739
apopemptic1753
melologue1820
Orphic1855
wren song1855
air de cour1878
Kunstlied1880
action song1883
come-all-you1887
marching song1894
party song1911
theme song1929
honky-tonker1950
protest song1953
sing-along1959
slow jam1961
talking blues1969
rap1979
1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 211 We haven't a camelty tune of our own To help us trollop along, But every neck is a hair-trombone..And this is our marching-song:—Can't! Don't! Shan't! Won't! Pass it along the line!
1948 R. Ellmann Yeats (1949) xviii. 281 In February 1934, still toying with the unofficial army, he [sc. Yeats] wrote some marching songs for O'Duffy's men.
1994 B. Bryson Made in Amer. (1995) viii. 159 Unquestionably apocryphal is the old tale that Mexicans began calling Americans gringos because a popular marching song during the Mexican war contained the words ‘Green grow the rushes’.
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marchingadj.1
/ˈmɑːtʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɑrtʃɪŋ/, Scottish English /ˈmartʃɪŋ/, /ˈmartʃɪn/, /ˈmertʃɪŋ/, /ˈmertʃɪn/ Now Scottish. rare.
That serves as a march or boundary; bordering, adjoining.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > contiguous > bordering
coasted1382
costeianta1393
coastingc1400
marching?a1425
bordering1530
finitimate1578
confining1605
confronting1614
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 156v Fleobotomye auoideþ more fro depuez, And ventosez bene confynyez, i. marching [L. confinia], to the skyn.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 108/1 The seide Shire of Northumberland is marchyng to the Scottes, the Kynges Enemyes.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke v. f. 33 He was as a marchyng bordre betwene the lawe yt should afterward ceasse, & the libertee of the ghospell shortely after to arise.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. iv. f. 103/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I In old tyme he onely was called Marquise Qui habuit terram limitaneam, a marching prouince vpon the enemies countreis.
1916 G. Abel Wylins fae my Wallet 127 The auler loon was cuttin' sprots Oot by the mairchin' burn.
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marchingadj.2
/ˈmɑːtʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɑrtʃɪŋ/ 1. Military. That marches or that is used in marching. Also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [adjective] > marching
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 173 Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals, & also by allusion to the maner of a mans gate or going may be called the marching figure.
1651 T. Vaughan Second Wash 138 Thou doest advance..in limping halting verse, but I will charge thee with a Marching Prose.
1667 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 31 Your petitioners were directed by the Lieutenant of his Majestie's Ordnance to make a marching barricade, to carry six small gunns.
1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 2 He should provide two hospitalls.., a fixt one and a marching one.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 544 The marching Troop which their dead Prince attends.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxvii. 426 As marching armies..accelerate their march.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Dec. 3/1 All this does not mean that the Mahdi will have an effective marching army wherewith to advance on Egypt.
1885 Athenæum 18 Apr. 502/1 From the point of view of the marching soldier the physical aspect of the country..is far from attractive.
1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) iv. 42 The car lamps picked up out of vacancy the marching towers of the power lines.
1968 Listener 26 Sept. 403/3 Her pictorial records of militarised youngsters, marching young men and sieg-heiling fathers..were worth uncountable battalions to the Fuehrer.
1994 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. c7/2 It fills the screen with ever-changing images: not flying toasters or marching bunnies, but desert, mountain, sea and space scenes.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [adjective]
progressing1795
marching1856
moving1903
1856 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. (ed. 2) i. 56 These pushing, marching, money-making times.
Compounds
marching band n. a band which plays on the march in parades, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of
waits1298
consort1587
wait player1610
wind music1650
the fiddles1676
military band1775
German band1819
street band1826
brass band1834
promenade band1836
horn-band1849
pipe band1867
wind-band1876
Hungarian band1882
jazz band1916
jazz orchestra1916
big band1919
road band1922
Schrammel quartet1924
showband1926
spasm band1926
dance-band1927
marching band1930
name band1932
ork1933
silver band1933
sweet band1935
Schrammel orchestra1938
pop band1942
jug band1946
steel band1949
rehearsal band1957
skiffle band1957
ghost band1962
support band1969
support group1969
scratch band1982
1930 M. H. Hindsley Marching Band in Mus. Supervisors Jrnl. Dec. 15/1 People still crowd to the windows along the street..at the sound of a marching band.
1945 F. H. Rodgers Marching Band Student's Handbk. ii. 11 The drum major..is responsible..for the morale of the marching band.
1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird i. 4 The sousaphone tuba he played in the local marching band.
1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 22 Aug. d 3/2 A parade, with high school marching bands, floats, antique and custom cars, line-dancers, fire trucks, horses and clowns, will begin at noon tomorrow.
marching girl n. New Zealand and Australian a member of a team of girls who march in formation in parades, etc.
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1952 Here & Now (N.Z.) July 9 Not for a long time have I observed such a symptom of our malaise as the business of ‘marching girls’.
1963 Sunday Mirror (Sydney) 27 Jan. 2 (caption) In gay, colorful uniforms marching girls were cheered by city crowds as they strode through city streets during the Australia Day celebrations.
1974 Fiji Times 3 July (caption) Marching girls parade through Lautoka during the Salusalu Festival at the weekend.
marching regiment n. a regiment on active service.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for rapid movement
flying stalea1500
flying camp1577
marching regiment1707
travelling circus1915
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iii. 26 A marching Regiment, Sir, an old Corps.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. i This is my return..for putting him, at twelve years old, into a marching regiment.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Marching Regiments, a term given to those corps who had not any permanent quarters, but were liable to be sent not only from one end of Great Britain to the other, but to the most distant of her possessions abroad.
1910 A. E. W. Mason At Villa Rose xv. 204 A Captain Harland, of a marching regiment.
marching watch n. now historical a body of watchmen which patrolled the streets of a city; spec. the procession of watchmen which traditionally (until 1524, and only intermittently thereafter) marched through the City of London on the eve of the festival of the nativity of St John the Baptist.
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1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 75 Besides the standing watches all in bright harnesse in euery warde..there was also a marching watch, that passed through the principall streetes thereof.
1616 R. Niccols Londons Artillery x. 97 Our Londons wonted practise shewd Her marching watch, both wishd renewd.
1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 355 In 1585, a pamphlet was addressed to..[the] Mayor of London, reckoning over the advantages of a marching watch for the city.
1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. ix. 273 Stow records two kinds of watch in Queen Elizabeth's day: a ‘standing watch’ for serious duties, and a ‘marching watch’ for celebrations.
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