reckon out

Verb

reckon out (third-person singular simple present reckons out, present participle reckoning out, simple past and past participle reckoned out)

1. (transitive) To figure out; determine by calculation, computation, or logic; make out
   • But suppose, now, that we could reckon it out, that the inmost secret of it all lay as clear and plain to us as a rule-of-three sum, should we be any the happier?2008, Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, page 302
   • 'What is written on the paper?' 'Don't rightly know, sir. I can reckon out my name and numbers of course, but I can't make out all that fancy clerkwriting. Or sometimes Portuguese carracks take them and the certificates say Bristol on them, I can make that out.'2013, Patricia Finney, Gloriana's Torch
2. (transitive) To count out
   • Woe to those who act fraudulently, who exact their full measure when in receipt from others, yet give short measure when they reckon out or weigh out for others.2012, Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar, The Middle East and Islamic World Reader