strike tallies

English

Verb

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.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section 2”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, book, page 188:

     The Clergie in the Province of York did also for a long time deny the Kings Supremacy. Indeed the Convocation of York hath ever since struck Talies with that of Canterbury, (though not implicitly) unanimously post-concurring therewith;

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “strike tallies”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)