Brewer's: Score

A reckoning; to make a reckoning; so called from the custom of marking off “runs” or “lengths,” in games by the score feet. (See Nurr, Spell, Tally.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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