transitive. To record or keep an account of by means of a notch or notches made on a tally or stick. Also with up, down. Also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To record or tally by means of notches. Frequently with up; also occasionally with down, off. Now chiefly figurative.

To produce (marks, figures, etc.) by cutting. Also (with allusion to sense 10), to record or express by cuts or notches.

transitive †To notch (a stick) so as to make it a tally (obsolete); hence, to mark, score, set down or enter (a number, etc.) on or as on a tally…