reckonern.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 His eskebach..makeð þer in figures of augrim, as þeose rikeneres [a1250 Nero rikenares, a1250 Titus recneres, a1300 Caius rickene-neres] doð þe habbeð muche to rikenen.

a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 16 Compotista, an acountere or a rekenere.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 428 Reknare, computator.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. viii. sig. C Reckners without their host must recken twice.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes sig. i.iv^v This vntruth, in the yrkesome number of his ragman roll, is chiefly noted to recreate the spirits of the reckoner.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Compteur, a reckoner.

1669 A. Marvell Let. 20 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 91 The tellers for the Ayes chanced to be very ill reckoners so that they were forced to tell severall times over.

1745 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl.: Pt. 2 xiii Retrospects with bad Reckoners are troublesome Things.

1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis iv. i. 215 One person, who is the reckoner, keeps account by making a notch in a stick for every barrow.

1823 F. D. Hemans Vespers of Palermo v. ii. 97 We shall have Stern reckoners to account with.

a1830 W. Hazlitt On Sun-Dial in Men & Manners (1852) 74 The great advantage..which clocks have over watches and other dumb reckoners of time is, that for the most part they strike the hour.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. ii. 20 Fingers are the most ready and natural of aids to an unready reckoner.

1914 Amer. Math. Monthly 21 39 An-Nadim..includes this writer in his list of the later..reckoners and arithmeticians.

1964 E. J. F. Primrose tr. K. Menninger Calculator's Cunning i. 19 This rule of thumb teaches you to examine the numbers before doing the sum: this is most important if you wish to become a good reckoner.

1996 Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 19 Common sense and judicial restraint would say to send the ballots back to Weymouth with due admonishments lest future sore losers be encouraged to regard courts, not election commissioners, as reckoners of record.

1757 D. Fenning (title) The ready reckoner; or, trade's most useful assistant.

1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 7 His fingers would be his first reckoners.

1860 Brit. Controversialist 3rd Ser. 3 361 Even the stars in the sky have been arranged into lighthouses and sea-guides, reckoners of time, and tests of chronology.

1913 Biometrika 9 539 It was proposed to include in Dr de Souza's paper two abacs or ready reckoners for the use of the obstetrician.

1989 Which? Bks. Sept. 5/1 It includes:..clear instructions on carrying out your mid-life financial review plus income and spending reckoners to help with your calculations.

1995 Which? Tax Saving Guide 45/1 In the reckoner, opposite, we outline the maximum levels of pension permitted by the Inland Revenue.