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raker
1[ rey-ker ]
raker
2[ rey-ker ]
noun
, Building Trades.
- an inclined member, as a pile or shore.
ˈraker
/ ˈreɪkə /
noun
- a person who rakes
- a raking implement
- dialect.a large lump of coal
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You said that you wished we might settle down to sound and constructive work, and get rid of the "muck-raker."
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The machine built in 1831 required that the raker walk by the side of the machine.
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No answer came from the pirate, but her head was rounded to, so as to bear directly down on the Raker.
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Not one of her crew was found living, so destructive had been the continual discharge of grape from the Raker.
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The latter vessel, traversed in every direction by the Raker's terrible fire, was rapidly settling into the ocean.
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