Sentence:  'What is written on the paper?' 'Don't rightly know, sir. I can <WSD>reckon out</WSD> 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.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To figure out; determine by calculation, computation, or logic; make out