compterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

compter (plural compters)

1. (obsolete) A counter (token used for keeping count).
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:

     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.

2. (historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter.
   • 2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Oxford University Press, page 284:

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