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Rake (noun)
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
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Rake (noun)
A lot, plenty.
“Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.”
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Rake (noun)
A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
“The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.”
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Rake (noun)
A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
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Rake (noun)
The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
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Rake (noun)
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
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Rake (noun)
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
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Rake (noun)
Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
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Rake (noun)
The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
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Rake (noun)
The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
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Rake (noun)
A man habituated to immoral conduct.
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Rake (noun)
A course; direction; stretch.
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Rake (noun)
A range, stray.
“a sheep-raik = a sheep-walk”
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Rake (verb)
To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
“We raked all the leaves into a pile”
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Rake (verb)
To search thoroughly.
“Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. — Captain John Blaine”
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Rake (verb)
To spray with gunfire.
“the enemy machine guns raked the roadway”
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Rake (verb)
To claw at; to scratch.
“Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.”
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Rake (verb)
To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
“The casino is just raking in the cash; it’s like a license to print money.”
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Rake (verb)
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
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Rake (verb)
To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
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Rake (verb)
To guide; to direct
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Rake (verb)
To incline from a perpendicular direction.
“A mast rakes aft.”
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Rake (verb)
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
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Rake (verb)
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
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Rake (verb)
Of a dog or hawk, to follow the wrong course; to go wide of the game being pursued.
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Rake (verb)
To run or rove.
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Hoe (noun)
An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.
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Hoe (noun)
The horned or piked dogfish.
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Hoe (noun)
alternative spelling of ho.
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Hoe (noun)
A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
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Hoe (verb)
To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool.
“to hoe the earth in a garden”
“Every year, I hoe my garden for aeration.”
“I always take a shower after I hoe in my garden.”
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Hoe (verb)
To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe.
“to hoe corn”
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Hoe (verb)
alternative spelling of ho.
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Rake (noun)
an implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.
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Rake (noun)
an implement similar to a rake used for other purposes, e.g. by a croupier drawing in money at a gaming table.
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Rake (noun)
an act of raking
“giving the lawn a rake”
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Rake (noun)
a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits
“a merry Restoration rake”
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Rake (noun)
the angle at which a thing slopes
“you can adjust the rake of the backrests”
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Rake (noun)
the angle of the edge or face of a cutting tool.
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Rake (noun)
a number of railway carriages or wagons coupled together
“we have converted one locomotive and a rake of coaches to air braking”
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Rake (noun)
a herd of colts.
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Rake (verb)
draw together with a rake or similar implement
“they started raking up hay”
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Rake (verb)
make (ground) smooth with a rake
“I sometimes rake over the allotment”
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Rake (verb)
scratch or scrape (something, especially a person’s flesh) with a long sweeping movement
“her fingers raked Bill’s face”
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Rake (verb)
draw or drag (something) through something with a sweeping movement
“she raked a comb through her hair”
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Rake (verb)
sweep (something) from end to end with gunfire, a look, or a beam of light
“the road was raked with machine-gun fire”
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Rake (verb)
move across something with a long sweeping movement
“his icy gaze raked mercilessly over Lissa’s slender figure”
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Rake (verb)
search or rummage through something
“he raked through his pockets and brought out a five-pound note”
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Rake (verb)
set (something) at a sloping angle
“the floor is steeply raked”
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Rake (verb)
(of a ship’s mast or funnel) incline from the perpendicular towards the stern
“her long clipper bow and raked mast”
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Rake (verb)
(of a ship’s bow or stern) project at its upper part beyond the keel.