counterchange

verb, noun — 4 senses

counterchange

verb

Etymology From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

1

To give and receive; C; to exchange.

2

To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.

Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 89, lines 1781–1782:

Synonyms: interchange, swap, checker, freck

counterchange

noun

Etymology From Middle French contrechange (noun), contrechanger (verb).

1

Obsolete An exchange of one thing for another.

2

Obsolete Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.

But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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