▪ I. † ˈcounter-ˌroll, n. Obs.
Also 7 -rolle, -roule, conterrol.
[a. obs. Fr. contrerolle ‘the copie of a roll (of accounts, etc.), a paralell of the same qualitie and content with th' originall’ (Cotgr.), corresp. to med.L. contrarotulus: see control and counter- 8.]
A copy of a roll or document, kept for purposes of checking: cf. controller 1.
| 1613 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 244 The Sherifes shall haue Conterrols with the Coroners, as well of their Appeales, as of enquests of Attachments. 1863 H. Cox Instit. iii. vii. 683 The officer..was to reside at the Receipt of the Exchequer, and to have a counter-roll of all things pertaining to the said receipt. |
b. fig. A list, catalogue. (Cf. roll.)
| 1603 Florio Montaigne iii. ii. (1632) 451 A Counter-roule of divers and variable accidents. |
▪ II. † counter-roll, v.1
Early form of control v.
▪ III. ˈcounter-ˌroll, v.2
[counter- 1.]
intr. To roll in the opposite direction.
| 1850 Mrs. Browning Poems I. 210 Spiritual thunders..did..o'er him roll and counter-roll. |