1. Every effective defense leads to a counterattack: one "breaks" the attack of the opposing weapon with one's own action. 2. A wrestling counter-grip. The counter-grips of the wrestler were intended to throw the opponent suddenly from a more or less upright position to the ground, "breaking" him. Stuck und bruch (Talhoffer 1467): attack and counter-attack.

German composer (1838-1920)