Double-time

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To march at double time. intransitive
  2. 2
    To order troops to march at double time. transitive

    "[…]after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns."

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"[…]after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns."

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