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rake definition and meaning

n. 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.
n. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
n. A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
v. t. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
v. t. 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.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To search through; to scour; to ransack.
v. t. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
v. t. 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.
v. i. To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
v. i. To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
n. The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
n. the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
v. i. To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
n. A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
v. i. To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
v. i. To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.

Crossword clues for rake

- Amass, ... in
- Garden implement
- Garden tool
- Gardening tool
- Lady-killer
- Lawn tool
- Libertine
- Playboy
- Profligate