Counter-round. See [Rounds].
Counter-mines. See [Mines].
Counter-trenches. [See] [Siege].
Counter-working, is the raising of works to oppose these of the enemy.
Counter-swallow’s-tail, in fortification, is a kind of an out-work very much resembling a single tenaille.
To Countermand, is to give contrary orders to those already given; to contradict former orders, &c.
COUNTERMURE, a wall built up behind another in order to increase the strength of any work.
COUNTERMARCH, a change by wings, companies, subdivisions, sections, or files, whereby those who were on the right take up the ground originally occupied by the left; generally used in changing the front. See [March].
COUNTERSCARP, in fortification, is properly the exterior talus, or slope or the ditch, on the farther side from the place, and facing it. Sometimes the covert way and glacis are meant by this expression. See [Fortification].
COUNTERSIGN, in a general acceptation of the term means any particular word, such as the name of a place or person, which, like the parole, is exchanged between guards, entrusted to persons who visit military posts, go the rounds, or have any business to transact with soldiers in camp or garrison. It ought always to be given in the language most known to the troops.