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ready reckoners

ready reckoners is the plural of ready reckoner.

Meaning of ready reckoner

Noun

ready reckoner (plural ready reckoners)

  1. (historical) A printed book or table containing precalculated values, often multiples of given amounts.
    • Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts[…]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
  2. A computer program which calculates values; an online calculator.

Noun capitalized: Ready Reckoners

the Ready Reckoners pl (plural only)

  1. (dated, plural, plural-only, slang) The Highland regiments of the British army.

Questions about ready reckoners

What does ready reckoners mean?
Ready reckoners means the Highland regiments of the British army.
What is ready reckoners the plural of?
Ready reckoners is the plural of ready reckoner.
What part of speech is ready reckoners?
Ready reckoners is a noun.

Words near ready reckoners in the dictionary

  1. ready monies
  2. ready or not
  3. ready queue
  4. ready queues
  5. ready reckoner
  6. ready reckoners
  7. ready room
  8. ready rooms
  9. ready salted
  10. ready to be tied
  11. ready to hand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ready reckoners (page history and authors); Ready Reckoners (page history and authors); ready reckoner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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