/rech/ , v.i.
1. to make efforts to vomit.
v.t.
2. to vomit.
n.
3. the act or an instance of retching.
[ 1540-50; var. of reach, OE hraec an to clear the throat (not recorded in ME), deriv. of hraca a clearing of the throat; cf. ON hraekja to hawk, spit ]