Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An order of march in which soldiers are not required to keep step or remain silent, and may carry their arms at will, provided the muzzles are elevated.
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Examples
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Technically it's "route-step", but your version is MUCH more apropos in this context.
News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't 2009
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Two turkey, ham, lobster!!!, and all the trimmings dinners followed by an 'easy' 3 mile route-step.
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Military working parties go at route-step bitching in and out, carrying crates.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The country is like a vast disorganised undisciplined army, leaderless, uninspired, going in route-step along the road to they know not what end.
Marching Men Sherwood Anderson 1908
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It may be said, before quitting the subject, that as an order of sailing, corresponding to the route-step of an army in march, a loose group formation has some advantages; maintaining some order without requiring that rigid exactness of position, to observe which by day and night must be a severe strain on captain and deck-officers.
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The men marched at the route-step in two straggling files along either side of the road, thus leaving the central space free for the officers, and Maurice could not help noticing their anxious, care-worn air, in striking contrast with the jollity and good-humor of the soldiers, who were happy as children to be on the move once more.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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