ready-reckoner
English
Noun
ready-reckoner (plural ready-reckoners)
- Alternative spelling of ready reckoner
- 1890, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, chapter 4, in The Trail of the Serpent, Book the Sixth:
- 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?"