dead-reckon
verb (used with object)
to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
dead-reckoner
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a word derived from
dead-reckon.
Example Sentences
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It was as if a dead-reckoner poring over his chart should predict breakers ahead to one who already beheld them.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas
