sb. Obs. [COUNTER- 2.] Labor in opposition. (Somewhat contemptuous.) So Countermoil v., to work laboriously against; Countermoiling vbl. sb.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 277 b. Strong and … invincible agaynst all the battery and countermoyles of Heretiques. Ibid., 129. Undermined with the countermoyling of her outragious Pyoners.
