rafte
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rafte
- (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reave
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “King Henrie the fifth”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 1181:
- When the French vaward was thus brought to confusion, the english archers rafte away their bowes, and tooke into their handes, axes, mastes, swords, billes, and other hand weapons
- 1578, John Polemon, “The Battell of Bicona”, in All the famous battels that haue bene fought in our age throughout the worlde […] , page 157:
- […] and Mounsieur Baccalaure the Ensigne bearer of Monsieur de Brion was slayne, and Hugh Earle of Pepoli, had his legge shot through with an harquebusse, the Frenche guidons were rafte and torne […]
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Aegloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC, folio 31, verso:
- But Colin Clout rafte me of his brother
References edit
- “rafte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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rafte
- past participle of reven