noun pl. tallies
- Obsolete a stick with cross notches representing the amount of a debt owing or paid: usually the stick was split lengthwise, half for the debtor and half for the creditor
- anything used as a record for an account, reckoning, or score
- an account, reckoning, or score
- either of two corresponding parts of something; counterpart
- agreement; correspondence
- any number of objects used as a unit in counting
- an identifying tag or label
Origin:
ME talye < Anglo-L talia < L talea, a stick, cutting: see tailor
transitive verb tallied, tallying
- to put on or as on a tally; record
- to count; add: usually with up
- to put a label or tag on
- Archaic to make (two things) agree or correspond