countertime

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COUNTERTIME, noun [counter and time.] 1. In the manege, the defense or resistance of a horse that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman or the bad temper of the horse. 2. Resistance; opposition.
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