verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of. obsolete

   "Then his ambitious sonnes vnto them twaine / Arraught the rule […]"

Example

More examples

"Then his ambitious sonnes vnto them twaine / Arraught the rule […]"

Etymology

From Old English aræcan, corresponding to a- + reach.

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