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
- For both of these a small, fine rake is the best cure.
- Poker operates on something called the rake, which is a percentage of each hand that goes directly to the casino.
- JACK: 'Tis a delicate age, by jingo, when the rake is the fine gentleman and the fine gentleman is the lady's favourite, egad.
- About a third of the funds deposited by gamblers went to the poker companies as revenue, known as the "rake," prosecutors said.
- About one-third of the funds deposited by gamblers went to the poker companies as revenue, known as the "rake," prosecutors said.
- "Because we don't underestimate the international game," said Johnson, who had nine stitches running down the left side of her nose — courtesy of a face-rake from a New Zealander.
- Having mentioned the word rake, I must say a word or two more on that subject, because young people too frequently, and always fatally, are apt to mistake that character for that of a man of pleasure; whereas, there are not in the world two characters more different.
- But by the next harvest I had it so constructed, as to be drawn by an iron bar so shaped, appended and supported on the underneath part of the carriage, as to admit of the machine turning in any direction, and the carriage would follow just as the two hind wheels of a wagon do; the carriage had a seat behind, and a thick, deep cushion in front, for the raker to press his knees against while removing the grain from the platform to his right hand, which he was enabled to do with apparent ease with a _rake of peculiar shape_; -- (it cannot be done with a rake of ordinary shape).
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