English
Etymology
From tally + stick.
Noun
tally stick (plural tally sticks)
- (historical) A bone, or piece of wood, on which notches or scores are cut, as the marks of number, for account keeping.
- Synonyms: nickstick, tally
- Hyponyms: single tally, split tally
Coordinate terms
Translations
piece of wood with notches or scores
- Albanian: rabush (sq) m, çetele (sq) f
- Armenian: հաշվեփայտ (hy) (hašvepʻayt)
- Middle Armenian: փայտ համարոյ (pʻayt hamaroy)
- Bulgarian: рабош m (raboš)
- Catalan: pal de recompte m, pal de comptar m, bastó de recompte m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 帳目棍 / 帐目棍
- Czech: vrubovka f
- Old Czech: rabušě f
- Dutch: kerfstok (nl) m
- Finnish: pulkka (fi), pirkka (fi), pykäläpuu
- French: bâton de comptage m, bâton de taille m
- German: Kerbholz (de) n, Kerbstock m, Zählholz n, Zählstab m
- Greek: τσέτουλα (el) f (tsétoula)
- Ingrian: birkka
- Italian: bastone da conteggio m
- Occitan: òsca (oc) f
- Persian: چوبخط (čub-xat)
- Polish: rabosz m
- Romanian: răboj (ro) n
- Russian: би́рка (ru) f (bírka)
- Slovak: rováš m
- Old Slovak: rováš m
- Spanish: palo tallado m, palo de cómputo m
- Turkish:
- Ottoman Turkish: چتله (çetele)
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