Definition of "countercheck" []

• Something that serves to check, restrict, or limit something else. (noun)
• Something that confirms or denies the correctness of a previous check. (noun)
• To oppose or check by a counteraction. (verb-transitive)
• To check again in order to verify. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Also, as we were rowing into a very great sound lying south-west from whence these whales came, upon the sudden there came a violent countercheck of a tide from the south-west against the flood which we came with, not knowing from whence it was maintained."
• "Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect."
• "One man, with opinions pretty well ossified on this subject, having been challenged for his statement that Mrs. Browning was born at Hope End, rushed into print in a letter to the “Gazette” with the countercheck quarrelsome to the effect, “You might as well expect throstles to build nests on Fleet Street 'buses, as for folks of genius to be born in a big city.”"