Meaning of compter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A counter (token used for keeping count).
   obsolete
2. A prison attached to a city court; a counter.
   historical

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Examples

“Let me see: every 'leven wether tods, every tod yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred shorn, what comes the wool to? […] I cannot do't without compters.”

“Each sheriff had his own compter, which were both prisons and offices, administered by the respective secondaries.”

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