1736 Canting Dictionary / T / TALLY-Men [person]
Brokers that let out Cloaths to wear per Week, Month or Year. See Rabbit-Suckers.
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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.
Tally Men in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).