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Meaning: (idiomatic,uncommon,archaic)A (falsified)billthat is notitemised, and that isunjustifiablyhigh.1712, Roger Coke,A Detection Of The Court and State Of England During The Four Last Reigns, page 22:As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up inClaviushis Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like aDutchReckoningofAllem-al?1828,Death on Board-Wages, published inTales of an Antiquary(volume 2 of 3) by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London:"You knows we never took Mike'sdudstill you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with aDutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey?" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall.2009, Georgette Heyer,Frederica, page75:'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me aDutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'; (nautical)Afalseorincorrectreckoningofposition.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeDutch,reckoning.1 March 1625 in theDutch reckoningwas, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.
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