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counter-rolls

counter-rolls is the plural of counter-roll.

Meaning of counter-roll

Noun

counter-roll (plural counter-rolls)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A 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 year1830, George Price, A Treatise on the law of the Exchequer

Questions about counter-rolls

What is counter-rolls the plural of?
Counter-rolls is the plural of counter-roll.

Words near counter-rolls in the dictionary

  1. counter-revolution
  2. counter-revolutionaries
  3. counter-revolutionary
  4. counter-revolutions
  5. counter-roll
  6. counter-rolls
  7. counter-rotation
  8. counter-rotations
  9. counter-salient
  10. counter-sectarian
  11. counter-shed

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