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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)
—Idiom| 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. |
| 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
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.
8. comb, scour, ransack.
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.
1620–30; orig. uncert.

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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.
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Language Translation for : rake
Spanish:
rastrillo,
German:
der Rechen,
Japanese:
くま手
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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