counter-roll

noun

A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

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Meanings

nouncounter-roll (plural counter-rolls)

plural counter-rolls

  1. UKobsoletelawA duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

    It consists in making a counter roll, […]or transcript of the annual or Great Roll of the Pipe of the preceding year

    1830, George Price, A Treatise on the law of the Exchequer

Origin

From counter- + roll; compare control and comptroller.

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APA

counter-roll. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counter-roll

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“counter-roll.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counter-roll. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “counter-roll,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/counter-roll.

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