rought

Verb

reach (third-person singular simple present reaches, present participle reaching, simple past and past participle reached or (obsolete) raught)

1. (intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
   • He reached for a weapon that was on the table.
2. (transitive) To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over.
   • to reach someone a book
3. (intransitive) To stretch out the hand.
4. (transitive) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held, so as to touch, strike, grasp, etc.
   • to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear
5. (transitive) To strike or touch.
   • His bullet reached its intended target.
6. (broadly, transitive) To extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut.
   • A few words, lovingly, encouragingly spoken failed to reach her heart.1889, The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine, volume 1, page 119

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Verb

reck (third-person singular simple present recks, present participle recking, simple past and past participle recked or (obsolete) rought, raught)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive (usually with of or for)) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.
   • Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
2. (archaic, catenative) To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.
   • My master is of churlish disposition, / And little recks to find the way to heaven / By doing deeds of hospitality.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (archaic, intransitive, with-of) To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
   • Little recked the busy multitude in that great smoky town of Blackingham of the solemn glories of the fading woods, with all their mellow brown and crimson foliage; little dreamed they of gorgeous sunsets, purple clouds, roseate mists, and lingering lovely-coloured lights in mountain passes; […]1866, Emma Jane Worboise, “Mr. Armstrong’s Will”, in Sir Julian’s Wife, London: Virtue Brothers and Co., […], →OCLC, page 1
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
5. (ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
   • It recks not!
6. (dialectal, obsolete, reflexive) To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.