Mil. Obs. rare–1. [COUNTER- 8.] A file standing opposite another.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xxxviii. (1663), 153. All the Army was … divided into twelve Battalions, whereof they made twelve Files, and one Counterfile in the Vantguard, that incompassed the whole Camp, in manner of an half Moon.
