Counter-roll

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. UK, obsolete

    "It consists in making a counter roll, […]or transcript of the annual or Great Roll of the Pipe of the preceding year"

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"It consists in making a counter roll, […]or transcript of the annual or Great Roll of the Pipe of the preceding year"

Etymology

From counter- + roll; compare control and comptroller.

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