Naut. Now rare. [Origin obscure.]
1. trans. To haul taut (the fore or main lee-sheets). Hence Tallied ppl. a.
c. 1450. Pilgrim’s Sea-Voy., 19, in Stacions Rome (1867), 37. A boy or tweyn Anone up styen, And ouerthwart the sayle-yerde lyen;—‘Y how! taylia!’ the remenaunt cryen, And pulle with alle theyr myght.
a. 1625. Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. MS. 2301). When they hale aft the Sheate of Maine or Fore-Saile, they saie Tallee aft the Sheate.
1627. Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ix. 39. Get your Starboord tacks aboord, and tally or hale off your Lee-Sheats.
1762–9. Falconer, Shipwr., II. 212. Taught aft the sheet they tally, and belay. Ibid. (1769), Dict. Marine (1789). Border les écoutes tout plat, to tally the sheets flat aft.
1836. E. Howard, R. Reefer, xxx. By hauling along tallied bights of rope.
2. intr. To catch hold or ‘clap’ on to a rope.
1840. R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxviii. 97. All hands tallied on to the cat-fall. Ibid., xxxv. 133. All hands tally-on to the main tack.
1896. Kipling, Seven Seas, 93. Heh! Tally on. Aft and walk away with her! Handsome to the Cathead now; O tally on the fall!
