John McClane: Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?

In these extracts the word abuse is used in the sense of ‘an individual piece of invective’ or ‘an abusive comment’ and is clearly a countable noun.

He came to the stake in a fair black gown furred and faced with foins.

It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.