What is "to hunt counter"

Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.

1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

   Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
   --Gen. xxvii. 5.

2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

   He after honor hunts, I after love.
   --Shak.

3. (Mach.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.

   To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.]
   --Shak.