areach
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English aræcan, corresponding to a- + reach.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -iːtʃ
Verb
[edit]areach (third-person singular simple present areaches, present participle areaching, simple past and past participle areached or araught)
- (obsolete) To reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Then his ambitious sonnes vnto them twaine / Arraught the rule […]