Rake
Definition of Rake
Pronunciation: rākt | n. | 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. | | 2. | A toothed machine drawn by a horse, - used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake. | | 3. | (Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; - called also rake-vein. | | v. t. | 1. | To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; - often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves. | | 2. | 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. | | 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. | | 4. | To search through; to scour; to ransack. | | 5. | To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does. | | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. | | 2. | To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. | | n. | 1. | (Naut.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc. | | v. i. | 1. | To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft. | | n. | 1. | A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué. | | v. i. | 1. | To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. | | 2. | To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life. |
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