English

Verb

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

1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
   • Tennyson

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

Noun

counterchange ‎(plural counterchanges)

1. (obsolete) An exchange of one thing for another.
2. (obsolete) Due return (for an action etc.); reciprocation.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ix:

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

References

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