counterstroke

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.”