counterchange

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

counterchange (third-person singular simple present counterchanges, present participle counterchanging, simple past and past participle counterchanged)

1. To give and receive; C; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
   • 1849, Tennyson, Alfred, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 89, lines 1781–1782:

     Witch-elms that counterchange the floor / Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.

• (to cause to change places): interchange, swap; See also Thesaurus:switch
• (to checker): checker, freck (rare, poetic)

counterchange (plural counterchanges)

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse [...].

• counterchange in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• counterchange in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913