Rake
Rake (rāk) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon race; akin to OD. rake, Dutch reek, Old High German rehho, German rechen, Icelandic reka a shovel, and to Gothic rikan to heap up, collect, and perhaps to Greek 'ore`gein to stretch out, and English rack to stretch. Compare 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.
(Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
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Rake (rākt) , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon 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.
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.
5.
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.
6.
(Military) 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.
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To rake up , (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes (b) To bring up; to search out and bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.
Rake (rāk) , intransitive verb
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.
2.
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.
Rake , noun
[Compare dial. Swedish raka to reach, and English reach.]
(Nautical) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
(Nautical) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
Rake , intransitive verb
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
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Raking course (Bricklaying) , a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.
Rake , noun
[Old English rakel rash; compare Icelandic reikall wandering, unsettled, reika to wander.]
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.
An illiterate and frivolous old rake.
Rake , intransitive verb
[Icelandic reika. Compare Rake a debauchee.]
1.
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Provincial English]
2.
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. — Shenstone
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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