raught

simple past and past participle of reck

Verb form of, obsolete

  1. simple past and past participle of reck

Origin

From Middle English roughte, rought, from Old English reahte, first and third person singular preterite of reccan (“to stretch, extend, go”). More at reck.

Verb form of, obsolete

  1. simple past and past participle of reach
    • His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie,...

Origin

From Middle English raughte, raghte, from Old English rāhte, a past tense form of rǣċan (“to reach”) (compare taught and teach).