tallymen
Those who count
Tallymen is the plural of tallyman.
A tallyman keeps count or score, recording quantities as goods are loaded or unloaded: The tallymen checked each crate against the manifest.
In British usage, a tallyman historically collected payments on credit purchases, going door to door to record installments in a tally book.
Money owed another
- collectorOne who gathers items
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- hire-purchasePay-over-time buying arrangement
- doorstepEntrance's bottom ledge
weekly · payments · arrears · ledger · customers · rounds · accounts · household
debt
Money owed another
- collectorOne who gathers items
- installmentPeriodic partial payment
- hire-purchasePay-over-time buying arrangement
doorstep · weekly · payments · arrears · ledger · customers · rounds · accounts · household · repayment
dock
Mooring structure at water's edge
shipment · inventory · checker · longshoreman · freight · manifest · warehouse · count · ledger · goods
plantation
Large-scale farming operation
labor · counting · gang · Caribbean · sugar · fieldwork · enslaved · harvest · taskmaster · Jamaica
tallymenlaborers
Workers doing physical tasks
dockers · stevedores · longshoremen · navvies · miners
tallymenlumpers
Those favoring broad categories
loaders · dock workers · freight handlers · cargo handlers · beast of burden