Obs. [COUNTER- 3.] A cuff or blow given in return, or to parry another.
1589. (title) A Countercuffe given to Martin Junior by the venturous, hardie, and renowned Pasquill of Englande Cavaliero.
a. 1625. Boys, Wks. (1629), 236. For, Christ doth vrge most, it is written, whereas the Pope by way of countercuffe as Antichrist especially maintaineth ordinances vnwritten.
1704. E. Ward, Dissent. Hypocr., 3. His lofty Hymn to th’ Wooden-Ruff, Was to the Law a Counter-Cuff.
