reckoner

Variant of reckon

reckon definition

reckon (rek′ən)

transitive verb

  1. to count; figure up; compute
    1. to consider as; regard as being reckon them friends
    2. to judge; consider; estimate
  3. Informal, Dialectal to think; suppose

Etymology: ME rekkenen < OE -recenian, akin to Ger rechnen, to count < IE base *reĝ-, to put in order, straight > right, L regere, to rule

intransitive verb

  1. to count up; figure
  2. Informal to depend or rely (on) reckoning on good weather
  3. Informal to think; suppose

Related Forms:

reckon Idioms

reckon with

  1. to balance or settle accounts with
  2. to take into consideration

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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