rake
IPA: rˈeɪk
noun
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (by extension) A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- The act of raking.
- Something that is raked.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (Britain, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A surname.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”) [(also figurative) A walk, or a journey taken (especially on foot); the act of taking a walk or journey.]
verb
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (transitive, intransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, intransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (transitive, intransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (nautical) Senses relating to watercraft.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (intransitive, dated, rare) To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”) [(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To walk; to roam, to wander.]
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Examples of "rake" in Sentences
- Can I rake the lottery
- Frogs and ducks have rakes.
- The farmer raked the land with the tool.
- Something raked me with the sharp thing.
- He found the footsteps of rakes on the mud.
- The Rake pub is to the south of the village.
- The man raked the bottom of the swimming pool.
- It is sometimes called the 'rake' of the stairs.
- The most common in Europe is the centrifugal rake.
- At the end, the grass is raked, weighed and baled to establish the winner.
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