areach

English

Etymology

Old English aræcan, corresponding to a- +‎ reach.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Verb

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 […]

Anagrams

archae-, archæ-

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