Word Meanings - COUNTERMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.

• Counterfort
  A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
• Countermark
  A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark adde
• Counterplotting
  of Counterplot
• Countersealed
  of Counterseal
• Counter tenor
  One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
• Counterwork
  To work in opposition to; to counteract.
• Countercurrent
  Running in an opposite direction.
• Countergage
  An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
• Countermine
  An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
• Counterplot
  To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
• Countersealing
  of Counterseal
• Counterterm
  A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend".
• Countercaster
  A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
• Counterdrawn
  of Counterdraw
• Counterguard
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• Countermined
  of Countermine
• Counterpoint
  An opposite point

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