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counterstroke

noun
/ˈkaʊntəstɹəʊk/UK

Etymology

From counter- + stroke.

  1. derived from *streyg-✻ — “to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”
  2. inherited from *straikaz✻ — “stroke”
  3. inherited from *straik✻
  4. inherited from strāc
  5. inherited from strok
  6. prefixed as counterstroke — “counter + stroke”

Definitions

  1. A blow given in return.

    • He met him with a counterstroke so swift, / That quite smit off his arme as he it up did lift.

  2. A retaliation.

    • She could understand how a man like Monohan would hate a man like Jack Fyfe, would nurse and feed on the venom of his hate until setting a torch to Fyfe's timber would be a likely enough counterstroke.

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