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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sheet on which a tally is kept; specifically, a sheet containing a record of votes, as at a popular election.

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Examples

  • As I prayed I strove to quest back in my life and cast a hurried tally-sheet of my own worth and unworth.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • As I prayed I strove to quest back in my life and cast a hurried tally-sheet of my own worth and unworth.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • The great conspiracy: A complete history of the famous tally-sheet cases: also, incidents of prison life, notorious criminals and their crimes; reflections ... personal and political life of the author by Simeon Coy

    Rove Threat to Blackmail GOP IT Mastermind Triggers Immunity Request to Ohio AG by Election Lawyers 2008

  • The great conspiracy: A complete history of the famous tally-sheet cases: also, incidents of prison life, notorious criminals and their crimes; reflections ... personal and political life of the author by Simeon Coy

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Phony Virginia Flier Mailed To Minorities Tells Dems To Vote November 5 2008

  • We set down a record of the games, and he went to bed happier if the tally-sheet showed him winner.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • He was hand in glove with the set that lurked about the 'club-room' over the saloon, and almost any night could be seen at the faro-table fingering his chips and checking off the cards on his tally-sheet.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • The company returned to the large dining-room, which, in the mean time, had been again transformed into a gaming-hall, with the usual accessories: a frame for the tally-sheet, a metal bowl to hold rejected playing-cards set in one end of the table, and, placed at intervals around it, were tablets on which the punter registered the amount of the stakes.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • We kept a record of the games, and he went to bed happier if the tally-sheet showed a balance in his favor.

    The Boys' Life of Mark Twain Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 1916

  • Laying-to to check one of the last of the few remaining boats which rode at anchor, Dickie consulted her tally-sheet and shook her head.

    El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

  • Shoving a tally-sheet before his eyes, she pointed to the totals.

    El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914

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