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rake

1 [reyk]

noun, verb, raked, rak⋅ing.

–noun

1.	an agricultural implement with teeth or tines for gathering cut grass, hay, or the like or for smoothing the surface of the ground.

2.	any of various implements having a similar form, as a croupier's implement for gathering in money on a gaming table.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to gather, draw, or remove with a rake: to rake dead leaves from a lawn.

4.	to clear, smooth, or prepare with a rake: to rake a garden bed.

5.	to clear (a fire, embers, etc.) by stirring with a poker or the like.

6.	to gather or collect abundantly (usually fol. by in): He marketed his invention and has been raking in money ever since.

7.	to bring to light, usually for discreditable reasons (usually fol. by up): to rake up an old scandal.

8.	to search thoroughly through: They raked the apartment for the missing jewels.

9.	to scrape; scratch: The sword's tip raked his face lightly.

10.	to scoop out (a masonry joint) to a given depth while the mortar is still green.

11.	to fire guns along the length of (a position, body of troops, ship, etc.).

12.	to sweep with the eyes: He raked the horizon with his gaze.

–verb (used without object)

13.	to use a rake: The gardener raked along the border of the garden.

14.	to search, as with a rake: His gaze raked over the room.

15.	to scrape; search: She frantically raked through her belongings.

—Idiom

16.	rake over the coals. coal (def. 8).

Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME rak(e), OE raca (masc.), racu (fem.); c. G Rechen, ON reka shovel; (v.) ME raken, partly deriv. of the n., partly < ON raka to scrape, rake

Related forms:

rak⋅a⋅ble, rake⋅a⋅ble, adjective

raker, noun

Synonyms:
8. comb, scour, ransack.

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rake

2 [reyk]

–noun

a dissolute or profligate person, esp. a man who is licentious; roué.

Origin:
1645–55; see rakehell

Synonyms:
libertine, profligate, lecher, womanizer.

rake

3 [reyk]

verb, raked, rak⋅ing, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to incline from the vertical, as a mast, or from the horizontal.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to cause (something) to incline from the vertical or the horizontal.

–noun

3.	inclination or slope away from the perpendicular or the horizontal.

4.	a board or molding placed along the sloping sides of a frame gable to cover the ends of the siding.

5.	Aeronautics. the angle measured between the tip edge of an aircraft or missile wing or other lifting surface and the plane of symmetry.

6.	Machinery. the angle between the cutting face of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the surface of the work at the cutting point.

Origin:
1620–30; orig. uncert.

rake

4 [reyk]

–verb (used without object), raked, rak⋅ing.

Hunting.

a.	(of a hawk) to fly after game.

b.	(of a dog) to hunt with the nose close to the ground instead of in the wind.

2.	Chiefly Scot. to go or proceed, esp. with speed.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME raken to go, hasten, OE racian

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rake¹ (rāk)

A long-handled implement with a row of projecting teeth at its head, used especially to gather leaves or to loosen or smooth earth.
A device that resembles such an implement.

v. raked, rak·ing, rakes

v. tr.

To gather or move with or as if with a rake: rake leaves; rake in the gambling chips.
To smooth, scrape, or loosen with a rake or similar implement: rake the soil for planting.
Informal To gain in abundance. Often used with in: a successful company that raked in the profits.
To search or examine thoroughly; ransack.
To scrape; scratch.
To aim heavy gunfire along the length of.

v. intr.

To use a rake.
To conduct a thorough search: raked through the files for the misplaced letter.

Phrasal Verb(s):
rake upTo revive or bring to light; uncover: rake up old gossip.

Idiom(s):
rake over the coalsTo reprimand severely.

[Middle English, from Old English raca; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]
rak'er n.

rake² (rāk)

n. An immoral or dissolute person; a libertine.

[Short for rakehell.]

rake³ (rāk)

intr. & tr.v. raked, rak·ing, rakes
To slant or cause to incline from the perpendicular: propeller blades that rake backward from the shaft; rake a ship's mast.
n.

Inclination from the perpendicular: the rake of a jet plane's wings.
The angle between the cutting edge of a tool and a plane perpendicular to the working surface to which the tool is applied.

[Origin unknown.]

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Rake

Rake\, n. [AS. race; akin to OD. rake, D. reek, OHG, rehho, G. rechen, Icel, reka a shovel, and to Goth. rikan to heap up, collect, and perhaps to Gr. ? to stretch out, and E. rack to stretch. Cf. Reckon.]

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. [Perhaps a different word.] (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

Rake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raked; p. pr. & vb. n. Raking.] [AS. racian. See 1st Rake.]

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. --Swift.

5. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.

Like clouds that rake the mountain summits. --Wordsworth.

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 an bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.

Rake

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. --Dryden.

2. To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Pas could not stay, but over him did rake. --Sir P. Sidney.

Rake

Rake\, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. raka to reach, and E. reach.] To inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.; especially (Naut.), the inclination of a mast or tunnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

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.

Rake

Rake\, n. [OE. rakel rash; cf. Icel. reikall wandering, unsettled, reika to wander.] A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a rou['e].

An illiterate and frivolous old rake. --Macaulay.

Rake

Rake\, v. i. 1. [Icel. reika. Cf. Rake a debauchee.] To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]

2. [See Rake a debauchee.] To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. --Shenstone.

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. --Encyc. Brit.

Language Translation for : rake

Spanish: rastrillo,

German: der Rechen,

Japanese: くま手

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rake (n.1)

"toothed tool," O.E. raca "rake," earlier ræce, from P.Gmc. *rak- "gather, heap up" (cf. O.N. reka "spade, shovel," O.H.G. rehho, Ger. Rechen "rake," Goth. rikan "to heap up, collect"). The verb is attested from c.1250; of gunfire from c.1630.

rake (n.2)

"debauchee," 1653, shortening of rakehell (1547), possibly an alteration (by association with rake (1) and Hell) of M.E. rakel (adj.) "hasty, rash, headstrong," probably from raken "to go, proceed," from O.E. racian, of unknown origin. Rakish first recorded 1706.

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