tally : Idioms & Phrases
Counter tally
- a tally corresponding to another.
Webster 1913
tally clerk
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noun one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received
tallyman.
WordNet
Tally on
(Naut.) , to dovetail together.(Naut.) , to man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail.
Webster 1913
Tally shop
- a shop at which goods or articles are sold to customers on account, the account being kept in corresponding books, one called the tally, kept by the buyer, the other the counter tally, kept by the seller, and the payments being made weekly or otherwise by agreement. The trade thus regulated is called tally trade. Eng. Encyc.
Webster 1913
To strike tallies
- to act in correspondence, or alike. Obs. Fuller.
Webster 1913
Writer of the tallies
(Eng. Law) , an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.)
