Obs.–0 [f. COUNTER- 8 + TALLY after prec.] The opposite half or part of a tally: = COUNTER-STOCK.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 99/1. Cowntyrtaly, anticopa.
1617. Minsheu, Ductor, A Countertaile or Countertallie, or tallie to confirme or confute another tallie … because it is a piece of wood which the one partie keepeth, that is cut off from another peece that the other partie keepeth: and so when both parties meet with their tallies, they score vp the number of that which is deliuered and receiued, by cutting a notch with a knife. [Hence in subsequent Dicts.]
