a tally-stick.
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| 释义 | society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > tally (12) tailstick1235 a tally-stick. taila1325 = tally, n.1 1; hence, a score, an account. by tail, by means of tallies; on credit. (Cf. on tick.) Obsolete. white stick?c1430 A white piece of wood used as a tally. Obsolete. senyec1440 A token or tally used by innkeepers. tallyc1440 A stick or rod of wood, usually squared, marked on one side with transverse notches representing the amount of a debt or payment. The rod being cleft… chalka1529 In reference to the old custom at alehouses, etc., of ‘ticking’ or writing up with chalk a ‘score’ or account of credit given: transferred from the… tally-stick1830 a stick used as or like a tally (sense 1). tally-board1849 a board on which an account is notched or chalked; e.g. one on which the record of a weaver's work is kept (Eng. Dial. Dict.). chalk-score1867 see 4. Subcategories:— notch cut in (3) |
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