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rake - /reɪk/
noun
noun: rake; plural noun: rakes
an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
an implement similar to a rake used for other purposes, e.g. by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table.
an act of raking.
"giving the lawn a rake"
verb
verb: rake; 3rd person present: rakes; past tense: raked; past participle: raked; gerund or present participle: raking
draw together with a rake or similar implement.
"I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass"
make (ground) smooth with a rake.
"in the early morning squads of workers rake the beach"
scratch or scrape (something, especially a person's flesh) with a long sweeping movement.
"her fingers raked Bill's face"
draw or drag (something) through something with a sweeping movement.
"she raked a comb through her hair"
sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light.
"the road was raked with machine-gun fire"
search or rummage through something.
"he raked through his pockets and brought out a five-pound note"
Phrases
as thin as a rake
(of a person) very thin. "in spite of all this food I remained as thin as a rake"
rake and scrape
be extremely thrifty; scrimp and save.
rake over coals
revive the memory of an incident which is best forgotten. "no point in raking over old coals, opening old sores"
rake in
make a lot of money. "the shop's raking it in now"
rake up
revive the memory of an incident or period that is best forgotten. "I don't see the point in raking up the past"
Origin
Old English raca, racu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch raak and German Rechen, from a base meaning ‘heap up’; the verb is partly from Old Norse raka ‘to scrape, shave’.
rake
/reɪk/
noun
noun: rake; plural noun: rakes
a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.
"a merry Restoration rake"
Phrases
a rake's progress — a progressive deterioration, especially through self-indulgence.
"his downfall was a rake's progress of late nights and seedy bars"
Origin
mid 17th century: abbreviation of archaic rakehell in the same sense.
rake
/reɪk/
verb
verb: rake; 3rd person present: rakes; past tense: raked; past participle: raked; gerund or present participle: raking
set (something) at a sloping angle.
"the floor is steeply raked"
(of a ship's mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern.
"her long clipper bow and raked mast"
(of a ship's bow or stern) project at its upper part beyond the keel.
noun
noun: rake; plural noun: rakes
the angle at which a thing slopes.
"you can adjust the rake of the backrests"
the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.
Origin
early 17th century: probably related to German ragen ‘to project’, of unknown ultimate origin; compare with Swedish raka .
rake
/reɪk/
noun
noun: rake; plural noun: rakes
a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together.
"we have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking"
Origin
late 18th century (originally Scots and northern English, in general sense ‘row or series’): from Old Norse rák ‘stripe, streak’, from an alteration of rek- ‘to drive’. The word was in earlier use in the senses ‘path, groove’ and ‘vein of ore’.
rake
/reɪk/
noun
noun: rake; plural noun: rakes
a herd of colts.
Origin: late Middle English: origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of rag1 or from obsolete or Scots rake ‘a rush, a run’.