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rake

noun

  1. any of various long-handled tools with teeth or prongs at one end, used for gathering loose grass, hay, leaves, etc., or for smoothing broken ground
  2. any of various similar toothed devices: oyster rake

transitive verb raked, raking

    1. to gather or scrape together with or as with a rake
    2. to make (a lawn, etc.) tidy with a rake
  1. to gather with great care
  2. to scratch or smooth with a rake, as in leveling broken ground
  3. to cover (a fire) with ashes
  4. to scratch or scrape
  5. to search through minutely; scour
  6. to direct gunfire along (a line of troops, the deck of a ship, etc.): often figurative
  7. to look over rapidly and searchingly

intransitive verb

  1. to use a rake
  2. to search as if with a rake
  3. to scrape or sweep: with over, across, etc.

noun

a dissolute, debauched man; roué

intransitive verb raked, raking

to be slightly inclined; slant, as a ship's masts, etc.

transitive verb

to cause to slant or incline

noun

  1. a slanting or inclination
    1. away from the perpendicular: the rake of a mast
    2. away from the horizontal: the rake of a stage
  2. the angle made by the edge of a cutting tool and a plane perpendicular to the surface that is being worked on

intransitive verb raked, raking

  1. to fly after game: said of a hawk
  2. to run after game with the nose to the track instead of in the wind: said of a hunting dog

See rake in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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