"strike tallies" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: strikes tallies [present, singular, third-person], striking tallies [participle, present], struck tallies [participle, past], struck tallies [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,struck>}} strike tallies (third-person singular simple present strikes tallies, present participle striking tallies, simple past and past participle struck tallies)
  1. (obsolete, idiomatic) To act in correspondence, or alike. Tags: idiomatic, obsolete
    Sense id: en-strike_tallies-en-verb-dwu4vVUQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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