[COUNTER- 6.]
1. The opposite slope of a hill, a ridge, etc.; a slope in the opposite direction.
1853. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxxii. 359. The rising of a counterslope almost imperceptible to the eye.
1870. Yeats, Nat. Hist. Comm., 105. The counter-slope of this ridge is narrow.
2. ‘An overhanging slope; as, a wall with a counter-slope’ (Webster, 1864).
1838–46. Mahan, Civil Engineering.
