Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
reach .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word reacht.
Examples
-
If such a settlement is reacht is submitted by the Commis - sion to the Land Claims Court to bee an order of that Court.
-
When glad of the booty and my revenge, I heal'd the slight old woman's anger, I design'd to make off; and taking up my cloaths, began my march; nor had I reacht the door, e're I saw Enothea bringing in her hand an earthen pot fill'd with fire; upon which I retreated, and throwing down my cloaths, fixt my self in the entry, as if I were impatiently expecting her coming.
The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter
-
The insurance in force had reacht the million dollar mark in 1904, the million and a half mark in 1909.
John Merrick. A Biographical Sketch Robert McCants 1920
-
The MSS. of his Poems, mutilated beyond the average Casualties of Oriental Transcription, are so rare in the East as scarce to have reacht Westward at all, in spite of all the acquisitions of Arms and Science.
-
Then I came into the Main County Road, that leads from Fredericksburgh to Germanna, which last place I reacht in Ten Miles more.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
-
By their Assistance we made a Shift to push the Line half a Mile in 3 Hours, and then reacht a small piece of firm Land, about 100 Yards wide, Standing up above the rest like an Island.
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader Louise Manly 1896
-
Therfor, les than w [p] n skolar for each teacher, and les than two skolarz for each skool inspekted, reacht Standard VI.
Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861
-
Your kind Note has reacht me here after a Fortnight's abode at my old
Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Edward FitzGerald 1846
-
Silently the train moved on: they had now nearly reacht the church, when a rider on a foaming horse gallopt toward them.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
-
The stranger trembled, and when she reacht the old man's apartment was near fainting: Balthasar dried his tears, and was unable to find words, as he led the pale lady to a chair: he made a sign, and Edward left the room, in great anxiety about his old friend, whom he had never seen so strongly moved, and with whom owing to this singular scene he stood on an entirely new footing.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.