raught

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English rāhte (compare taught and teach).

Verb

raught

  1. (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, ...

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

  1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reck

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