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struck tallies

struck tallies is the simple past and past participle 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 struck tallies

What is struck tallies the simple past and past participle of?
Struck tallies is the simple past and past participle of strike tallies.

Words near struck tallies in the dictionary

  1. struck one's colors
  2. struck one's flag
  3. struck out
  4. struck someone when they were down
  5. struck someone's fancy
  6. struck tallies
  7. struck the colors
  8. struck the iron while it's hot
  9. struck the tent
  10. struck through
  11. struck twice

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