Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To roll in the opposite direction: as, to roll and counter-roll.
- noun In old English law, a counterpart or copy of the rolls relating to appeals, inquests, etc., kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
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Examples
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He had not fully formulated his reproach when the ship righted herself with a counter-roll and plunge, and they were swung staggering back together against the bulkhead.
The Kentons William Dean Howells 1878
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The circumferential grooves on the carbide ring together with the ring grooves on the counter-roll are the profile of the roll product, called the calibre.
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