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Definition of Marching order
1. Noun. Equipage for marching. "The company was dressed in full marching order"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marching Order
Literary usage of Marching order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... God forbid your ever knowing, when At noon in marching order they were moving
to the piers; there 's blood around her flowing, How the lonely, ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"The Massachusetts First Regiment, which has been for several days at Boston
waiting marching order?, on learning that the War Department would hereafter ..."
3. The History of Sicily from the Earliest Times by Edward Augustus Freeman (1892)
"... and put themselves in marching order '. A garrison was left in the Olympieion—they
knew so little of Nikias as to fear a plundering of the holy ..."
4. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha by Gaetano Casati (1891)
"marching order of the caravan—Toil—Diseases—Hard treatment—Slighted complaints—The
little Amina—Departure from ..."
5. The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Its Three Tours of by Alfred Seelye Roe (1911)
"Election morning the command was formed in light marching order, rifles were
loaded, cartridge-boxes were filled and the men marched to the polling-place, ..."
6. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"marching order. In the British service a soldier is said to be in marching order
when ... In service marching order, by the addition of provisions and some ..."
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