raught

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɔːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːt

Homophone: wrought

Etymology 1

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

Verb

raught

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reach
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 94:

     His tayle was stretched out in wondrous length, That to the house of heavenly gods it raught, […]

Etymology 2

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

raught

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of reck

Anagrams

• ghutra, tughra