reache

English

Noun

reache (plural reaches)

1. Obsolete spelling of reach
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎^[1]:

     Extra iocum, I like your Dreames passingly well; and the rather, bicause they sauour of that singular extraordinarie veine and inuention whiche I euer fancied moste, and in a manner admired onelye in Lucian, Petrarche, Aretine, Pasquill, and all the most delicate and fine conceited Grecians and Italians, (for the Romanes to speake of are but verye ciphars in this kinde,) whose chiefest endeuour and drifte was to haue nothing vulgare, but, in some respecte or other, and especially in liuely hyperbolicall amplifications, rare, queint, and odde in euery pointe, and, as a man woulde saye, a degree or two, at the leaste, aboue the reache and compasse of a common scholars capacitie.

Verb

reache (third-person singular simple present reaches, present participle reaching, simple past and past participle reached or raughte)

1. Obsolete spelling of reach
   • 1504, Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister‎^[2]:

     I with my distaffe will reache hym one rappe, Tib. Talk.

Anagrams

• cheare