Rake ¹

Definition: 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.

Rake ²

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

Rake ³

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

Rake ⁴

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

Rake ⁵

Definition: 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.

Rake ⁶

Definition: 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.

Rake ⁷

Definition: To search through; to scour; to ransack.

Rake ⁸

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

Rake ⁹

Definition: 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.

Rake ¹⁰

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

Rake ¹¹

Definition: To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Rake ¹²

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

Rake ¹³

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

Rake ¹⁴

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

Rake ¹⁵

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

Rake ¹⁶

Definition: To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.

Rake ¹⁷

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

rake ¹⁸

Definition: a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil

rake ¹⁹

Definition: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

rake ²⁰

Definition: a dissolute man in fashionable society

rake ²¹

Definition: scrape gently; "graze the skin"

rake ²²

Definition: gather with a rake; "rake leaves"

rake ²³

Definition: level or smooth with a rake; "rake gravel"

rake ²⁴

Definition: move through with or as if with a rake; "She raked her fingers through her hair"

rake ²⁵

Definition: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"

rake ²⁶

Definition: sweep the length of; "The gunfire raked the coast"