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Rake   /reɪk/   Listen
noun
Rake  n.  
1.
An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth.
2.
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
3.
(Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; called also rake-vein.
Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.


Rake  n.  The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.; especially (Naut.), The inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.


Rake  n.  A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué. "An illiterate and frivolous old rake."


verb
Rake  v. t.  (past & past part. raked; pres. part. raking)  
1.
To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
2.
Hence: To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
3.
To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
4.
To search through; to scour; to ransack. "The statesman rakes the town to find a plot."
5.
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. "Like clouds that rake the mountain summits."
6.
(Mil.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck.
To rake up.
(a)
To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes.
(b)
To bring up; to search out and bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.


Rake  v. i.  
1.
To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. "One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words."
2.
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. "Pas could not stay, but over him did rake."


Rake  v. i.  To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.


Rake  v. i.  
1.
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
To rake out (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; said of the hawk.





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... loved; and this was the way he made them his friends. 3. While he was at work with a rake on his nice walks in the grove, the ...
— McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... and his good spirits enabled him to pursue his pleasures of every kind in so alert and sprightly a manner, that multitudes envied him, and called him, by a dreadful kind of compliment, "the happy rake." ...
— The Life of Col. James Gardiner - Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 • P. Doddridge
... promptly interrupted the conversation. "It doesn't quite follow," he suggested. "You people don't, I regret to say, understand the destiny of this child. The fact is that even the old Hanlin scholar Mr. Cheng was erroneously looked upon as a loose rake and dissolute debauchee! But unless a person, through much study of books and knowledge of letters, so increases (in lore) as to attain the talent of discerning the nature of things, and the vigour of mind to fathom the Taoist reason as well as to comprehend the first principle, ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... told us, that they have no trees to cut down, no fences to make, no negroes to buy and to clothe: and now I think on it, when wilt thee send him those trees he bespoke? But if they have no trees to cut down, they have gold in abundance, they say; for they rake it and scrape it from all parts far and near. I have often heard my grandfather tell how they live there by writing. By writing they send this cargo unto us, that to the West, and the other to the East Indies. But, ...
— Letters from an American Farmer • Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
... raised on ash cakes, yams and butter milk. These ash cakes were small balls made of dough and my mother would rake the ashes out of the fire place and lay these balls on the hot coals and then cover them over with the ashes again. When they were done we would take 'em out, clean off the ashes and eat them. We used to cook chicken by first cleaning it, but leaving the feathers on, then cover it with clay ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: The Ohio Narratives • Works Projects Administration


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