Definitions for the word "rake" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To search through; to scour; to ransack.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. i.
To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v. i.
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. v. i.
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. v. i.
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. n.
1 implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar at the end for drawing together hay etc. Or smoothing loose soil or gravel. 2 similar implement used (e.g.) To draw in money at a gaming-table. v. (-king) 1 collect or gather with or as with a rake. 2 make tidy or smooth with a rake. 3 use a rake. 4 search thoroughly, ransack. 5 direct gunfire along (a line) from end to end. 6 scratch or scrape. rake in colloq. Amass (profits etc.). Rake up revive the (unwelcome) memory of. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
19. n.
Dissolute man of fashion. [rakehell: related to *rake1, *hell]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
20. v.
(-king) 1 set or be set at a sloping angle. 2 (of a mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern. n. 1 raking position or build. 2 amount by which a thing rakes. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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