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