a. and adv. [COUNTER prep. + CLOCK + -WISE.] In a direction counter to that of the movement of the hands of a clock.
1888. [see CLOCK-WISE s.v. CLOCK sb.1 11].
1890. C. A. Young, Elem. Astron., § 24. 16. All the stars appear to move in concentric circles around a point near the Pole-star, revolving counter-clockwise as we look towards the north.
