reckon out

English[edit]

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

(transitive) To figure out; determine by calculation, computation, or logic; make out
- 2008, Fridtjof Nansen, Farthest North, page 302:
  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?
- 2013, Patricia Finney, Gloriana's Torch:
  '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.'
- 2015, Karl Clifton-Soderstrom, The Cardinal and the Deadly:
  Pahom does not understand. “A day? What measure is that? How many acres would that be?” “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”“We do not know how to reckon it out,” said the Chief.
(transitive) To count out
- 2012, Marvin E. Gettleman, Stuart Schaar, The Middle East and Islamic World Reader:
  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.