Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A signal used as an answer to another.
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Examples
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He watched with keen eye the movements of Rambosalama, and when that Prince left the room for the purpose of giving the signal to his followers, he slipped quietly out and gave his counter-signal, which was the waving of a scarf from a window.
The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Francis B. Pearson 1859
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The Emperor, with a smile of intelligence, to show he could speak to his guards in their own foreign language, replied, by the well-known counter-signal -- "_Drink hael! _ '"
Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801
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The Emperor, with a smile of intelligence, to show he could speak to his guards in their own foreign language, replied, by the well-known counter-signal — “Drink hael!’”
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Ah, you see the lumpenproletariat such as myself can’t counter-signal.
“Oh, Near Boston…” 2006
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