reckon out

present singular third person reckons out · participle present reckoning out · participle past reckoned out · past reckoned out

1. transitiveTo figure out; determine by calculation, computation, or logic; make out

   But suppose, now, that we could reckon it out, that the inmost secret of it all lay as clear and plain to us as a rule-of-three sum, should we be any the happier?

   2008, Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, page 302

   2 more examples

   'What is written on the paper?' 'Don't rightly know, sir. I can reckon out my name and numbers of course, but I can't make out all that fancy clerkwriting. Or sometimes Portuguese carracks take them and the certificates say Bristol on them, I can make that out.'

   2013, Patricia Finney, Gloriana's Torch

   Pahom does not understand. “A day? What measure is that? How many acres would that be?” “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”“We do not know how to reckon it out,” said the Chief.

   2015, Karl Clifton-Soderstrom, The Cardinal and the Deadly

2. transitiveTo count out

   Woe to those who act fraudulently, who exact their full measure when in receipt from others, yet give short measure when they reckon out or weigh out for others.

   2012, Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar, The Middle East and Islamic World Reader