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ready-reckoner en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ready reckoner.
    • 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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ready-reckoners Number=Plur lexicographic