countertime Meaning, Definition & Usage

Coun"ter*time` noun
Definitions
  1. (Man.) The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.
  2. Resistance; opposition. Obs.
    Give not shus the countertime to fate. Dryden.

Webster 1913