Meanings
raught1
- obsoleteparticiplepastsimple 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, →OCLC, stanza XVIII, page 94
raught2
- obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of reck
Origin
raught · verb
- Old Englishrāhte
- Middle Englishraughte
- Englishraught
From Middle English raughte, raghte, from Old English rāhte, a past tense form of rǣċan (“to reach”) (compare taught and teach).
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- Old Englishreahte
- Middle Englishroughte
- Englishraught
From Middle English roughte, rought, from Old English reahte, first and third person singular preterite of reccan (“to stretch, extend, go”). More at reck.
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raught. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raught
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