tallying 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.