Lexicographical Neighbors of Reckan
Literary usage of Reckan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"reckan (6 S. xi. ... or reckan. His reason for spelling it reek-aim is that he
supposes this to be the etymological spelling, and that the sense is ..."
2. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"reckan (6 S. xi. 65 ; 1885). This Northern word is duly explained in Atkinson's
Cleveland Glossary as ' an iron crane, on which are suspended the pot-hooks, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... or raist-horse, a horse which will not draw; a restive horse. reckan, a hook
from which a pan is suspended over a fire from a galley-balk. ..."
4. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1854)
"The pontiff knew that he might reckan on his intelligence and inflexible
adhesi' :j :•.• the interests of the hierarchy ; even the cardinal's gout was of ..."
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