Reaching above our nature does no good.
Dryden.
3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as
to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached
to heaven.
Gen. xxviii. 12.
The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.
Boyle.
4. (Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to
another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
To reach after or at, to make efforts to attain to or obtain.
He would be in the posture of the mind reaching after a positive
idea of infinity.
Locke.
Reach, n. 1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of
reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or
thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon
shot.
2. The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the
like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than themselves to matters
which they least intended.
Hayward.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know.
Pope.
3. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result;
scope.
And on the left hand, hell, With long reach, interposed.
Milton.
I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues, nor to
larger reach Than to suspicion.
Shak.
4. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion
of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as
between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
"The river's wooded reach." Tennyson.
The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches.
Holland.