Counter
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. computatorium.] The name of two prisons formerly existing in London, the Poultry Counter and Woodstreet Counter, for the use of the city, to confine debtors, peace breakers, &c.
Cowell. Whishaw. Tomlins.