What does rafte mean?

rafte

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"When the French vaward was thus brought to confusion, the english archers rafte away their bowes, and tooke into their handes, axes, mastes, swords, billes, and other hand weapons"
"[…]and Mounsieur Baccalaure the Ensigne bearer of Monsieur de Brion was slayne, and Hugh Earle of Pepoli, had his legge shot through with an harquebusse, the Frenche guidons were rafte and torne[…]"
"But Colin Clout rafte me of his brother"

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