tallymann.
/ˈtalɪmən/, /ˈtalɪman/, U.S. /ˈtæliˌmæn/ 1.
a. One who carries on a tally-trade, or supplies goods on credit, to be paid for by instalments.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > [noun] > one who sells on hire purchase
tallyman1654
tallywoman1728
tally-master1851
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xi. 242 Brewers, Clerks, Bakers, and all Tally-men.
1678 Four for a Penny in Harl. Misc. (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.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tally-men, Brokers that let out Cloths at moderate Rates to wear per Week, Month, or Year.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 380/2 The pedlar tallyman 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.
b. (See quot. 1889.)
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1889 Academy 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.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > keeper of accounts
accountera1400
teller1434
countrel?1475
reasoner1509
accountant1539
chequer-man?1577
computist1583
rational1610
actuary1769
account keeper1797
tallyman1857
number cruncher1971
bean-counter1975
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who load or unload > and check merchandise
tallyman1888
tally-clerk1890
1857 Spirit 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.
1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Apr. 862/1 With the voice of a stentor the tally-man shouts out the number and sex of each calf.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xix. 190 I reckon them to be..mayhap five thousand two hundred foot. I have been thought a good tally-man on such occasions.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous ix I'm tally-man for the schooner.
3. One who ‘lives tally’ with a woman. slang.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > cohabitation > one who
star boarder1875
tallyman1876
tallywoman1890
bide-in1916
bidie-in1916
cohabiter1942
shack-job1946
cohabitee1955
shack-up1969
live-in1977
1876 J. 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.
1890 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 10 297/1 The terms tally-man and tally-woman, indicating a man and woman living together without marriage, are used in mining districts.
4. Used for talesman n.1 Obsolete.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > member taken to make up number
tales1495
talesman1679
tallyman1682
1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 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.
Derivatives
ˈtallymanning n.
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1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxiv. 279 He talked of nothing but tally-maning.
ˈtallymanship n. nonce-words the business or occupation of a tallyman.
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1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxxiv. 274 The nature and objects of tallymanship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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