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reach verb To hand, stretch, pass (something) to or toward (someone). [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1939 Bond Appal Dialect 111 = to strain; stretch. 1969 Roberts Greasybeard 164 I told my wife to reach me out a sack, so she reached me out a sack. 1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 53 I had a half pone of cornbread, and I retched (reached) it over to him, and he retched me back two biscuits.

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