strike tallies
English
Verb
strike tallies (third-person singular simple present strikes tallies, present participle striking tallies, simple past and past participle struck tallies)
- (obsolete, idiomatic) To act in correspondence, or alike.
- 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 2”, in James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, OCLC 913056315, book, page 188:
- The Clergie in the Province of York did also for a long time deny the Kings Supremacy. Indeed the Convocation of York hath ever since struck Talies with that of Canterbury, (though not implicitly) unanimously post-concurring therewith;
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for strike tallies under tally in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)