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
A yellow-haired little man, shrewd, and a ready reckoner.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 by Various
It looks like a page out of a ready reckoner or a mathematician's nightmare.
From The Lost Valley by Walsh, James Morgan
Thomas system ready reckoner 500 cribbage. © on text & other copyrightable elements; 13Jan34; AA141617.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
He consulted a ready reckoner that was on the desk.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert
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