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The Meaning of rake
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(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.
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(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
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(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
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(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
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(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.
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(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.
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(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
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(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
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(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.
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(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
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(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
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(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
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(n.) 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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(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
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(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
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(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
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(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Synonyms
rent
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pitch
,
rakehell
,
parentage
,
blood line
,
snag
,
crosscurrent
,
lineage
,
roue
,
stock
,
rip
,
ancestry
,
stemma
,
descent
,
pedigree
,
riptide
,
line of descent
,
blood
,
tide rip
,
line
,
slant
,
squanderer
,
origin
,
split
,
countercurrent
,
bloodline
,
tear
,
profligate
,
prodigal
,
angle
,
lurch
,
delivery
,
pitch shot
,
tar
,
auction pitch
,
pitching
,
sales talk
,
sales pitch
,
skim
,
crease
,
scan
,
graze
,
run down
,
glance over
,
plane
,
run over
,
conk out
,
play out
,
sap
,
skim off
,
skitter
,
poop out
,
run out
,
peter out
,
exhaust
,
check out
,
cream
,
cream off
,
read
,
skip
,
skim over
,
tire
,
pasture
,
furrow
,
ruckle
,
rumple
,
browse
,
crisp
,
crop
,
range
,
wrinkle
,
scrunch
,
crinkle
,
scrunch up
,
crumple
,
move
,
displace
Rhymes
ache
,
ake
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awake
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backache
,
bake
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beefsteak
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bellyache
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betake
,
blake
,
brake
,
break
,
caique
,
cake
,
cheesecake
,
crake
,
cupcake
,
dake
,
daybreak
,
drake
,
earthquake
,
fake
,
flake
,
forsake
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fruitcake
,
haick
,
haik
,
hake
,
handshake
,
headache
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heartache
,
heartbreak
,
hotcake
,
intake
,
jacque
,
jake
,
keepsake
,
kittiwake
,
lake
,
make
,
mandrake
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milkshake
,
mistake
,
muckrake
,
naik
,
namesake
,
opaque
,
outbreak
,
outtake
,
overtake
,
paik
,
pake
,
pancake
,
partake
,
plake
,
quake
,
rattlesnake
,
remake
,
retake
,
sake
,
schlake
,
schnake
,
schwake
,
shaik
,
shaikh
,
shake
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shortcake
,
shrake
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slake
,
snake
,
snowflake
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spake
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stake
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steak
,
strake
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sweepstake
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take
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undertake
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uptake
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wake
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yake