arch. [f. prec.] trans. To give a counterbuff to; to strike in return or in the opposite direction; to meet (a blow) with a return blow; to rebuff.
1579. E. K., Gloss. Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., Feb. Emblem, Whom Cuddye doth counterbuff with a byting … prouerbe.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, 33. To counterbuffe and beate backe all those ouerthwart blowes wherewith you haue charged me.
1632. Quarles, Div. Fancies, II. xlii. (1660), 71. Have we not enemies to counterbuffe, Enow.
1700. Dryden, Cymon & Iphig., 342. Stunned with the different blows, then shoots amain Till counterbuffed she stops and sleeps again.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 293. A dart … Which by th’ hoarse bronze was straightway counterbuffed.
