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Counter-roll

Counter-roll \Coun"ter-roll`\ (-r?l`), n. [Cf. Control.] (O. Eng. Law) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
--Burrill.

Note: As a verb this word is contracted into control. See Control.

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counter-roll

n. (context UK legal obsolete English) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

Usage examples of "counter-roll".

To fire paired broadsides into the Federation base as the ship descended, Blakey must have rolled the Mizpah on her axis, then counter-rolled.

To fire paired broadsides into the Federation base as the ship descended, Blakey must have rolled theMizpah on her axis, then counter-rolled.