合あい札ふだ

noun

claim check; tag; token

A matching tag or token used to identify and claim items, such as luggage at a cloakroom or a baggage claim area.

• 手て荷に物もつ預あずかり所しょで合あい札ふだを受うけ取とった。

  I received a claim check at the baggage counter.

• 合あい札ふだをなくすと荷に物もつが受うけ取とれない。

  If you lose the claim tag, you cannot pick up your luggage.

noun

tally; score

Used in contexts where matching halves of a tally stick or a record of accounts is kept; somewhat old-fashioned outside of traditional settings.

• 昔むかしの商しょう家かでは合あい札ふだで帳ちょう簿ぼを合あわせた。

  In old merchant houses, they reconciled accounts using tally sticks.