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Rake (r&ā;k), n. [AS. race; akin to OD. rake, D. reek, OHG. rehho, G. rechen, Icel. reka a shovel, and to Goth. rikan to heap up, collect, and perhaps to Gr. 'ore`gein to stretch out, and E. rack to stretch. Cf. Reckon.] 1. 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.
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2. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
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3. [Perhaps a different word.] (Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
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Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.
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Rake, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raked (r&ā;kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Raking.] [AS. racian. See 1st Rake.] 1. To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
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2. Hence: 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.
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3. 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.
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4. To search through; to scour; to ransack.
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The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
Swift.
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5. To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
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Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.
Wordsworth.
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6. (Mil.) 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.
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To rake up. (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes. (b) To bring up; to search out and bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.
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Rake (r&ā;k), v. i. 1. To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
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One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.
Dryden.
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2. To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
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Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.
Sir P. Sidney.
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Rake, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. raka to reach, and E. reach.] The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.; especially (Naut.), the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
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Rake, v. i. To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
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Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.
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Rake, n. [OE. rakel rash; cf. Icel. reikall wandering, unsettled, reika to wander.] A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.
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An illiterate and frivolous old rake.
Macaulay.
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Rake, v. i. 1. [Icel. reika. Cf. Rake a debauchee.] To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]
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2. [See Rake a debauchee.] To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. Shenstone.
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To rake out (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.
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