tally stick

His tally stick stood at an angle, revealing the mark of nine.

The earliest counting device was probably a form of tally stick.

Tally sticks have been found made of wood and of bone.

Without a tally stick, Cashel was lost after the tenth coin.

Twenty days, thirty, forty, were notched on my tally stick.

This was similar to the "tally stick" system used by the British Empire for over 700 years.

The Ishango bone is probably an early tally stick.

The tally stick is a timeless way of counting.

Originally it meant: keeping count of something by making notches in a tally stick.

Liet snatched a tally stick from the sash at his side.

It is a Baboon fibula that was used as a Tally stick.

Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, probably initially in the form of a tally stick.

Just another failure'notch for Nick to carve into his tally stick ...

The single tally stick serves predominantly mnemonic purposes.

Devices such as tally sticks were used to record these obligations and these then became negotiable instruments which could function as money.

"If we played tally sticks, I would beat you, of course," Liet said offhandedly to Warrick.

The "measuring rod" or tally stick is common in the iconography of Greek Goddess Nemesis.

A tally (or tally stick) was an ancient memory aid device used to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages.

Another precursor were tally sticks used to record the count of objects or the passage of discrete units of time (days).

The Lebombo Bone, an ancient Tally stick.

Numbers of livestock were carved on tally sticks and the sticks were then cut in two lengthwise to avoid later disputes.

Morgan, checking a tally stick for the newly refortified manor of the Sieur de Vali, looked up in surprise.

The single tally stick was an elongated piece of bone, ivory, wood, or stone which is marked with a system of notches (see: Tally marks).

When he counted above five, he notched a tally stick or-- for preference--dropped pebbles or dried peas into a pan.