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Webster 1913 Edition

(-r?lˊ)

Noun.

[Cf.

(O. Eng. Law)

A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer’s roll.

Burrill.

☞ As a verb this word is contracted into control. See

counter-roll ‎(plural counter-rolls)

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