The Collaborative International Dictionary
Counterstroke
Counterstroke \Coun"ter*stroke`\ (-str?k`), n.
A stroke or blow in return.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
counterstroke
n. 1 A blow given in return. 2 A retaliation.
Usage examples of "counterstroke".
He was the being who had delivered that counterstroke to rout Socks Mallory and his crowd of mobsmen!
More blows kept on coming in at her, their force great enough to make her hand sting when she caught them on her staff, and her counterstrokes were always turned.
It destroys men, not with the noble counterstrokes of an Eigerwand or a Nanga Parbat, but by eroding a man's nerve and body until he is a staggering, whimpering maniac.