Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mil., the act of marching from one station to another to relieve a garrison. It is conducted in open order; keeping step and silence are not required. See
to get the route and route-step.
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Examples
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I will run a bath, the sort of bath my grandfather used to dream about, route-marching across the weary roads of France in 1916, and in this warm, wet place I will execute myself.
Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003
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It was the band of the Mavericks playing the regiment to camp; for the men were route-marching with their baggage.
Kim 2003
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Extended manœuvres were impracticable in this well-fenced agricultural area, so the training embraced much route-marching, and barrack-square work, musketry, signalling, visual training, etc.
The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur
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The men were paraded, and then sent route-marching, which they much enjoyed.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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Russians, out route-marching, had walked across the bowling-screen at
The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion 1928
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The first of the route-marching that the Castle garrison practiced on occasional, bright spring mornings was always a delightful surprise to the small boys and dogs of Edinburgh.
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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It was the band of the Mavericks playing the regiment to camp; for the men were route-marching with their baggage.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Indeed, so much did he enjoy column of route that when off duty with two or three other horses he would play at route-marching, taking up a position in Indian file and avoiding any sort of arrangement which brought him abreast of his companions.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 Various 1898
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He was never more happy than when route-marching; never more unhappy than when compelled to break out of the line.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 Various 1898
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The body has been disciplined by drill, exercises, route-marching, and the like.
The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent John Hasloch Potter 1891
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