ready reckoner
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ready reckoner
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
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Alongside a new "ready reckoner" tool, allowing farms to calculate how much they might be offered, Irranca-Davies announced £33m for nine preparatory schemes to " back farm businesses during the transition to the new SFS".
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025
It looks like a page out of a ready reckoner or a mathematician's nightmare.
From The Lost Valley by Walsh, James Morgan
He never opened a book, save a manual of husbandry or a ready reckoner; he could conceive of no reason for walking, unless it were the business of the farm.
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
On large matters he went right by the very largeness of his mind; but in small matters he suffered from the lack of any logical test and ready reckoner.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
A few feet away, his father was carefully calculating, with the aid of a ready reckoner, the compound interest on a little pile of bills of exchange which lay before him.
From The New Tenant by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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