Talk:reach
Slang sense: put your hands up[edit]
In a couple of books and older radio shows I have heard the gangster, holding up a bank or similar, tell people "reach!" (intransitive), i.e. put your hands up. Equinox ◑ 21:22, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
Obsolete inflected forms[edit]
Some discussions which explain why obsolete inflected forms are mentioned in usage notes rather than on the headword line are Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2013/July#Inconsistent_mention_of_inflected_forms and Wiktionary:Tea_room/2019/December#reach/raught/rought. - -sche (discuss) 08:45, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
Geographic sense[edit]
We also need to add the sense of Wikipedia:Reach (geography) to the entry. This is a name for a section of river that is straightish and thus may usually be sailed in one reach (that is, without tacking). This is the "from one point of tacking to another" sense; a "reach" (geog) is a section of a river that you can sail on a single "reach" (leg of a sailed course). You don't have to tack until you get to the end of the geographical reach (unless the angle between the river and the wind is so small that you have to beat up the river, in which case you might be better off waiting for the tide to turn and riding the current, because beating up a narrow river ranges from tedious to impossible). This is also the sense used in "the lower/upper reaches of the river" HLHJ (talk) 04:05, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: To overreach; to deceive.. Apparently there's a quote by South out there Queenofnortheast (talk) 23:15, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
- I added one quote by Robert South - the use of "reach" I could find that best seems to fit the definition, but it might not actually have that meaning here. What do I know? Wubble You (talk) 12:35, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
- Oof, hard to tell with that one. It could mean this, or it could just mean "extend one's grasp". Equinox ◑ 12:41, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
- Nah, the quote can't be right. I removed it TVdinnerless (talk) 13:21, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:07, 7 September 2021 (UTC)