Meaning & use
Tallyman
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A person who keeps a tally or count of goods, votes, or scores; also, historically, a door-to-door trader who sold goods on credit and collected weekly payments.
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The tallyman called out each vote as it was counted at the town hall.
In the old mining town, the tallyman recorded each cart of ore as it came up from the shaft.
A note on using this word
In older British usage, a 'tallyman' specifically referred to a traveling salesman who sold on an installment plan, collecting payments recorded on a tally.
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