Counterfoil [noun]
Definition of Counterfoil:
acknowledgment of delivery
Sentence/Example of Counterfoil:
The counterfoil of a tradesman's paying-in book showed £100 with which he was not credited in the books of the bank.
Yes, there was the counterfoil, fresh as a new wound, from which indeed his bank account was profusely bleeding.
Idly I picked up the cheque-book—and absently fingered the leaves—then my eye caught a counterfoil where I had chanced to open it.
In the face of this, Falder, do you still deny that you altered both cheque and counterfoil?
Very well, then, how do you account for the fact that this nought was added to the nine in the counterfoil on or after Tuesday?
The facts are admitted, so far as the alteration of this cheque and counterfoil by the prisoner.
Indeed, it is the institutional counterfoil of these establishments.
The paper is marked on the back with the same number as the counterfoil of the paper which remains with the officer.
The controller had charge of the counter-rolls (cf. counterfoil), from Old Fr.
If the man had got the cheque, why did he fill up the counterfoil?