Crossword clues for tallyman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tallyman \Tal"ly*man\, n.; pl. Tallymen.
One who keeps the tally, or marks the sticks.
One who keeps a tally shop, or conducts his business as tally trade.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who keeps a tally of something 2 A person who conducts the tally trade
WordNet
n. one who sells goods on the installment plan
one who keeps a tally of quantity or weight of goods produced or shipped or received [syn: tally clerk]
Wikipedia
A tallyman is an individual who keeps a numerical record with tally marks, historically often on tally sticks.
Usage examples of "tallyman".
She emptied the basket on the dump and handed the tallyman a wooden marker: Lizzie guessed the markers were used to calculate the wages at the end of the week.
I have enough hangers-on sharing my stockpot without some bald Phoenician tallyman and his scrofulous clerk expecting to join in too.
Bergen asked Father Tallyman to speak to her, she was just as impertinent to him as she is to her parents.
A bit of hoisting here, a bit of burglary there, gravitating as the years went on to other kinds of illegal activities to keep them all clothed and fed, a roof over their heads, the tallyman off the doorstep, and a few bob for his poor mum to go out and have a good time.
Adam is felt: Taking in some long poles to-day the negro tallyman persisted in counting twice the same pole.
Archer at work on Libby Tallyman, who was two years older than he was.
Apart from his other merits, Saxby could read, the only employee on the estate with that ability, and he could cast up accounts, and woe betide any tallyman who accidentally cut too many or too few notches on his tally stick.