[f. COUNTER- 3, 6. Cf. F. contre-courant sb.] An opposite current.
1684. T. Burnet, Th. Earth, I. 122. They suppos’d one current upon the surface … and under it at a certain depth a counter-current.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., iv. (1854), 29. The great counter-current, which in the North Atlantic borders the Gulf Stream.
1883. G. Lloyd, Ebb & Flow, II. 127. Currents and counter-currents eddied together in her mind.
