What is "counterblows"

Usage examples of "counterblows".

With Koemon using a wooden sword in deliberate slow motion, Sano demonstrated how to deflect its blade, and how to deliver counterblows with the jitte.

It was now time for counterblows, harsh and definite, though still controlled, as always, by prudence.

That exercise had carried him all the way through his own brief part in the space battle, while he fired his popgun weaponry and evaded counterblows like a gnat ducking sledgehammers, through the concussions of near-misses and the shriek of tortured metal, and into an aftermath of dazed, confused bemusement that he did not seem to be dead after all.

The Five Families seemed to be cowed, finally, as the attrition went on, and their counterblows weakened, and finally ceased altogether.