ready-reckoner

A form of ready reckoner — A printed book or table containing precalculated values, often multiples of given amounts.

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Meanings

nounready-reckoner (plural ready-reckoners)

plural ready-reckoners

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ready reckoner.
    1 more example

    Besides these things, Mr. Peters found a Johnson's dictionary, a ready-reckoner, and a pair of boot-hooks; but as he found nothing else, Mr. Darley grew quite tired of watching his proceedings, and suggested that they should adjourn; for he remarked—"Is it likely that such a fellow as this North would leave anything behind him?"

    1890, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, chapter 4, in The Trail of the Serpent, Book the Sixth
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APA

ready-reckoner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ready-reckoner

MLA

“ready-reckoner.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ready-reckoner. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ready-reckoner,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ready-reckoner.

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