"compter" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A counter (token used for keeping count)."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A counter (token used for keeping count)."
      ],
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          "ref": "2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Oxford University Press, page 284:",
          "text": "Each sheriff had his own compter, which were both prisons and offices, administered by the respective secondaries.",
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        "A prison attached to a city court; a counter."
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          "prison"
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          "court",
          "court"
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          "counter"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter."
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒmptə/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "compter"
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        {
          "ref": "1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(obsolete) A counter (token used for keeping count)."
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        "(historical) A prison attached to a city court; a counter."
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