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Counts, as votes
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tallies
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (tally English) 2 (plural of tallie English) vb. (en-third-person singulartally)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tally \Tal"ly\, n.; pl. Tallies . [OE. taile, taille, F. taille a cutting, cut tally, fr. tailler to cut, but influenced probably by taill['e], p. p. of tailler. See Tailor , and cf. Tail a limitation, Taille , Tallage .] Originally, a piece of wood ...
Usage examples of tallies.
At home he could read tallies well enough, the notched sticks all the farmers used to keep count of stock and coin.
With his knife, he shaped chunks of bark peeling from a fallen limb into the familiar tallies of the farmer.
By this time Gird was warm and had worked the stiffness out, so he sent the two groups with food tallies off, and picked two guards from the camp chores group.
He had begun with simple tallies, marked with wheatear, sickle, and flower, but he needed lists of all his people, and their villages, and the bartons and their yeoman marshals.
Light coming through the reed curtain over the door cast striped shadows which bridged over the table and the piles of tallies and keys upon it.