raught
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔːt
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English rāhte (compare taught and teach).
Verb
raught
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reach
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto VII, XVIII:
- His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, ...
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto VII, XVIII:
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English reahte, first and third person singular preterite of reccan (“to stretch, extend, go”). More at reck.
Verb
raught
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reck