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tallies on

tallies on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tally on.

Meaning of tally on

Verb

tally on (third-person singular simple present tallies on, present participle tallying on, simple past and past participle tallied on)

  1. (archaic) To man a rope for hauling, the sailors standing in a line (also called a tail)
    • Our watch haul out the fore, and lay aloft and put two reefs into it, and reef the foresail, and race with the starboard watch, to see which will mast-head its topsail first. All hands tally-on to the main tack, and while some are furling the jib, and hoisting the staysail, we mizen-topmen...1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC
  2. To dovetail together.

Questions about tallies on

What is tallies on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tallies on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tally on.

Words near tallies on in the dictionary

  1. tallied on
  2. tallied up
  3. tallier
  4. talliers
  5. tallies
  6. tallies on
  7. tallies up
  8. Tallimba
  9. tallimeter
  10. tallimeters
  11. tallimustine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tallies on (page history and authors); tally on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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