areach
English edit
Etymology edit
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 […]