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Reckoner   Listen
noun
Reckoner  n.  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. "Reckoners without their host must reckon twice."





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"Reckoner" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the thirties at Bolton-on-Dearne named Thomas Rollin, commonly called Tommy. He used to render Psalm cii. 6: "I am become a pee-li-can in the wilderness, and an owl in the dee-sert." Tommy was a tailor by trade, and made use of a ready-reckoner to assist him in making up his accounts, and his familiarity with that useful book was shown when reading the second verse of the forty-fifth Psalm, which Tommy invariably read: "My tongue is the pen of a ready-reckoner," to the immense delight ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield


Words linked to "Reckoner" :   subtracter, reckon, statistician, figurer, computer, adder, estimator, vade mecum, ready reckoner, number cruncher, calculator, expert, handbook, actuary


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