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tally

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tally [′tal·ē]
(mining engineering)
A mark, number, or tin ticket placed by the miner on each car of coal or ore that is sent from the work place, thus facilitating a count or tally of all the filled cars.
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It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
They have been scorched, it is true; like the survivors of forlorn hopes, they have by unthinkably miraculous ways come through the fight to marvel at the tally of the slain.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Their tally was exact with the list, and they had nothing to add to the simple description `fifty cases of common earth', except that the boxes were `main and mortal heavy', and that shifting them was dry work.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
 
 
 
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