† counter-listn.
Obsolete.
plural. Lists or barriers placed outside of the lists proper as an additional or second line of fence.
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1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill iii. xvii. 136 Without the principall lists were euer certaine counterlists, betwixt which two, the seruants of the Constable and Marshall did stand.
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† counter-listv.
Obsolete.
To enlist in opposition.
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1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 123 This..listing Servants against their Masters..had provoked that dull Beast the City..to Counter-list in their own defence.
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