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A table or desk where money might be counted.
dates 1486 1498 1521 1558 1644 1657

spellings counterfoot
The OED links these two spellings with meanings such as 'imitated, forged' or 'made to a pattern, wrought', even 'made of inferior materials' but in Yorkshire some examples suggest that it came to mean a basin, made of some kind of metal.
dates 1433 1486 1524 1537 1544 1546 1567

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