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tallyman|ˈtælɪmən|
[f. tally n.1 + man.]
1. a. One who carries on a tally-trade, or supplies goods on credit, to be paid for by instalments.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xi. 242 Brewers, Clerks, Bakers, and all Tally-men. 1678Four for Penny in Harl. Misc. (ed. Park) IV. 148 The unconscionable Tally-man..lets them have ten-shillings-worth of sorry commodities,..on security given to pay him twenty shillings by twelve-pence a week. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Tally-men, Brokers that let out Cloths at moderate Rates to wear per Week, Month, or Year. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 380/2 The pedlar tally⁓man is a hawker who supplies his customers with goods, receiving payment by weekly instalments, and derives his name from the tally or score he keeps with his customers.
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1889Academy 29 June 440/1 In the tailoring trade the worst paid work is that of the ‘tallyman’, who takes orders direct from the actual wearer without the intervention of any contractor.
2. One who tallies, or keeps account of, anything; spec. a clerk who tallies or checks a cargo in loading or discharging.
1857Spirit of Times 23 May 190/3 The tallymen were: Olympic, E. W. Cody; Bay State, W. W. Bragg, jr. 1867‘T. Lackland’ Homespun ii. 155 It may be the vote is very close; in that case the outside counters and tall⁓ymen are as much in the dark as the rest. 1888Roosevelt in Century Mag. Apr. 862/1 With the voice of a stentor the tally-man shouts out the number and sex of each calf. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 190, I reckon them to be..mayhap five thousand two hundred foot. I have been thought a good tally-man on such occasions. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. ix, I'm tally-man for the schooner.
3. One who ‘lives tally’ with a woman. slang.
1876J. Read They all do It (song) 3 Mrs Brown says it's a sin, that Mrs Smith drinks gin And harbours tally⁓men from day to day. 1890N. & Q. 7th Ser. X. 297/1 The terms tally-man and tally-woman, indicating a man and woman living together without marriage, are used in mining districts.
¶4. Erroneously for talesman. Obs.
1682Enq. Elect. Sheriffs 10 A company of Mercenary fellows, that used to serve as Tallymen in Guild-hall for their Groats a Cause; who..would, to recover their Four⁓pence a Trial, sell the Charter and all the Priviledges of this honourable Corporation.
Hence ˈtallymanning, ˈtallymanship (nonce-wds.), the business or occupation of a tallyman.
1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. xxxiv, The nature and objects of tallymanship. Ibid., He talked of nothing but tally-maning. |