Piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot

Usage examples of counter.

I remember what the German absurdist poet Kurt Tucholsky said about his countrymen and counters: they all grovel in front of them, and aspire to sit behind them.

Finding a mostly empty box of sugar coated cereal, she sat down at the kitchen counter with it and ate it dry, wondering where Adonis had gone off to.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

So Nancy Floyd approached a pair of agents in her own Foreign Counter Intelligence Division on the twenty-fifth floor at 26 Federal Plaza.

Salem would work as an asset of the Foreign Counter Intelligence Branch, with Nancy Floyd as his salary contact and Napoli and Anticev as the formal case agents who would process his intel.

The attacks and counters continued, but the allo was taking no significant injuries, and the longer the action proceeded, the more alert the reptile was becoming.

McDermott goes to the counter and comes back again with a white china cup that has a blue line and an airplane on it, and Alphonse takes a long drink of the hot brew and thinks that it is just about the best thing he has ever had to drink in his whole long life.

To counter this, the design team created an antinoise generator, a device that matched the frequency of the sound waves and produced waves of its own at the exact opposite amplitude.

But he also wrote a pamphlet, countering the claim of a Greek writer, Apion, that the Jews had no history to speak of, since they were hardly mentioned in the works of Greek historians.

In the kitchen, gray ceramic tiles covered the counter and backsplash, plain white cupboards filled two walls, and the stove looked like it had never been used.

Behind the counter, a man in a cheap bagwig looked up from a sheaf of papers.

And I was watching a travelogue about Baluchistan on the little portable TV I keep on the counter.

Kayla sat at the counter, her legs dangling over a barstool, phone extended toward him.

That Bedmate thing was ordinarily a side-counter itemmaybe you stock four on a side counter and they sell a few a month.

And to put his arm-chair back in its place he was darting away from the counter, when Binet asked him for half an ounce of sugar acid.