countertime

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English

Etymology

counter- +‎ time. Compare contretemps.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaʊntə(ɹ)ˌtaɪm/

Noun

countertime (countable and uncountable, plural countertimes)

  1. (obsolete) Opposition; resistance.
  2. (equestrianism, obsolete) The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “countertime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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