The action of the verb COUNTER1, q.v.

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1858.  O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., 198. Feinting, dodging, stopping, hitting, countering,—little man’s head not off yet.

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1871.  Daily News, 1 Sept., 3/1. The hardest hitting and the most slashing style of ‘countering.’

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