tally sheet

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noun

a sheet for checking, counting, or scoring, as of cargo loaded or unloaded.

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Also called tally card .

Origin of tally sheet

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Words nearby tally sheet

tally, tally clerk, tallyho, tallyman, Tallys, tally sheet, tallyshop, tally-woman, talmbout, Talmi gold, Talmud

How to use tally sheet in a sentence

The first crucial innovation was to translate data on handwritten census tally sheets to patterns of holes punched in cards.
How the US census inspired the personal computer|David Lindsay Roberts/The Conversation|December 2, 2021|Popular-Science
Divide batter into prepared ramekins, place ramekins on a baking sheet, and bake about 20 minutes.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But right now, if we were to put out an aggregated tally for 2014, it would be way off the mark.
ISIS Fighters Are Killing Faster than Statisticians Can Count|Peter Schwartzstein|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pat the chicken dry with paper towels, place on a sheet pan, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Make These Barefoot Contessa Chicken Pot Pies|Ina Garten|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

With a 1¾-inch ice cream scoop (or two spoons), scoop round balls of dough onto the prepared sheet pans.
Make These Barefoot Contessa Salty Oatmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookies|Ina Garten|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Place the package, folded side up, on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
The Barefoot Contessa’s Tasty Trip to Paris|Ina Garten|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you use it wisely, it may be Ulysses' hauberk; if you reject it, the shirt of Nessus were a cooler winding-sheet!
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
The Professor took his pen and wrote a large X upon the sheet of paper in front of him.
Uncanny Tales|Various
Instead of a cloth, on each table was a sheet of fine glazed paper which had the appearance of oiled silk.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
Demons—was the horrible word that flashed through his brain like a sheet of fire.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
A very shallow sheet of water flowed down over a broad but nowise precipitous ledge of rock into the valley beneath.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer