raught
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English raughte, raghte, from Old English rāhte (compare taught and teach).
Verb
raught
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reach
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 94:
- His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, […]
Etymology 2
From Middle English roughte, rought, from Old English reahte, first and third person singular preterite of reccan (“to stretch, extend, go”). More at reck.
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