rake

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1. rake - Noun

2. rake - Verb

3. Rake - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.

A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.

To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.

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.

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.

To search through; to scour; to ransack.

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

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 use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.

To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.

the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.

To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.

A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. Emily Brontë

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. Samuel Richardson

Do not rake up old grievances. Romanian Proverb

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake. American Proverb

There is little to the rake to get after the beisome. Scottish Proverb

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