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Murrays New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025.
† Counter-feed
v. Obs.
[
C
OUNTER
- 1.]
trans.
To feed in return.
1
1659. Lovelace,
Poems
(1864), 231.
There is that justice left, since you maintain
His table, he should counter-feed your brain.
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