
Noah Webster
Counting-room
COUNTING-HOUSE, COUNTING-ROOM noun [See Count, the verb.] The house or room appropriated by merchants, traders and manufacturers to the business of keeping their books, accounts, letters and papers.

COUNTING-HOUSE, COUNTING-ROOM noun [See Count, the verb.] The house or room appropriated by merchants, traders and manufacturers to the business of keeping their books, accounts, letters and papers.