See Also: reckoning(medicine)
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Dead Reckoning - Sailing(gambling)

reckoning (iou)



reckoning noun. ME.
[from RECKON verb + -ING1.]
a. The action of RECKON verb; an instance of this; esp. an enumeration, an account. ME.
Defoe An exact Reckoning of Days. Daedalus In the final reckoning, truth is restored.
b. A specified manner of calculation. LME.
Ld Macaulay The sixteenth of October, according to the English reckoning.
spec.
a. A computation or statement of a sum owed; an account of charges; a bill. LME.
E. Mannin It was impossible to enjoy drinking..with the reckoning..hanging over you.
b. The calculated period of pregnancy. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
c. Nautical. The estimate of a ship's position calculated from the log etc. M17.
A mode of regarding a matter. LME-M17.
Shakespeare Taming of Shrew By this reck'ning he is more shrew than she.
The action or an act of calculating a chance or contingency; (an) anticipation, (an) expectation. M16.
Belfast Telegraph The reckoning is that North Sea oil will have worked wonders on the balance of payments.
Estimation, consideration, distinction. L16-M17.
Phrases: day of reckoning (a) Christian Theology the Day of Judgement; (b) transf. the time when past actions must be atoned for or avenged. dead reckoning: see DEAD adjective. Dutch reckoning: see DUTCH adjective. in the reckoning, out of the reckoning in or out of contention for a place in a contest etc.