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striking tallies

striking tallies is the present participle and gerund of strike tallies.

Meaning of strike tallies

Verb

strike tallies (third-person singular simple present strikes tallies, present participle striking tallies, simple past and past participle struck tallies)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To act in correspondence, or alike.
    • 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)^([sic]) unanimously post-concurring therewith;1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 2”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 188

Questions about striking tallies

What is striking tallies the present participle and gerund of?
Striking tallies is the present participle and gerund of strike tallies.

Words near striking tallies in the dictionary

  1. striking plate
  2. striking plates
  3. striking range
  4. striking someone when they are down
  5. striking someone's fancy
  6. striking tallies
  7. striking the colors
  8. striking the iron while it's hot
  9. striking the tent
  10. striking through
  11. striking twice

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