Rake
[reɪk] or [rek]
Definition
(noun.) a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil.
(noun.) a dissolute man in fashionable society.
(verb.) gather with a rake; 'rake leaves'.
(verb.) level or smooth with a rake; 'rake gravel'.
(verb.) move through with or as if with a rake; 'She raked her fingers through her hair'.
(verb.) sweep the length of; 'The gunfire raked the coast'.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
(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.
(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Checker: Salvatore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Libertine, debauchee, man of pleasure.
v. a. [1]. Gather, collect, draw together, heap together, gather together, scrape together, rake up, heap up.[2]. Scour, search closely.[3]. Enfilade.
v. n. [1]. Search, grope.[2]. (Naut.) Incline from a perpendicular (as a mast).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Libertine, roue, debauchee,[See {[XXX]?}]
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Definition
v.i. (prov.) to wander to take a course proceed: (hunting) of a hawk to fly wide of the game: of a dog to follow a wrong course.—Rake about (Scot.) to gad or wander about.
n. an instrument with teeth or pins for smoothing earth &c.: any tool consisting of a flat blade at right angles to a long handle.—v.t. to scrape with something toothed: to draw together: to gather with difficulty: to level with a rake: to search diligently: to pass over violently and swiftly: (naut.) to fire into as a ship lengthwise: to inter or hide as by raking earth over a body.—v.i. to work with a rake: to search minutely.—ns. Rā′ker; Rā′king the act or operation of using a rake: the space raked at once: the quantity collected at once with a rake: sharp criticism.—adj. such as to rake as a raking fire.—Rake hell to search even hell to find a person equally bad; Rake up to cover with material raked or scraped together: to draw from oblivion to revive.
n. a dissolute person: a libertine.—v.i. to lead a debauched life esp. to make a practice of lechery.—n. Rake′hell a rascal or villain: a debauchee.—adjs. Rake′hell -y dissolute.—ns. Rakehellō′nian a rakehell; Rā′kery dissoluteness; Rake′shame (Milt.) a base dissolute wretch.—adj. Rā′kish like a rake: dissolute: debauched.—adv. Rā′kishly.—n. Rā′kishness dissoluteness: the state of being rakish or dissolute: dissolute practices.
n. (naut.) the projection of the stem and stern of a ship beyond the extremities of the keel: the inclination of a mast from the perpendicular.—v.i. to incline from the perpendicular or the horizontal.—v.t. to cause to incline or slope.—adj. Rā′kish having a rake or inclination of the masts.—adv. Rā′kishly.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of using a rake, portends that some work which you have left to others will never be accomplished unless you superintend it yourself. To see a broken rake, denotes that sickness, or some accident will bring failure to your plans. To see others raking, foretells that you will rejoice in the fortunate condition of others.
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Examples
- In 1858 the machine was further improved by substituting an automatic rake for the raker on the machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The barber soaped my face, and then took his razor and gave me a rake that well nigh threw me into convulsions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He gave his throat a thorough rake round, as if it were the duty of every person not to be mistaken through thickness of voice. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- By these attentions, that veteran rake, Rawdon Crawley, found himself converted into a very happy and submissive married man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And these new means were the hay tedder to stir it, the horse hay-rake, the great hay-forks to load, and the hay-stackers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Every variety of haying machine, from side-delivery rake and tedder to sweep rake and loader, came eventually to make hay-making easy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why, you are not going to trust yourself in that rake's carriage alone? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I can't,' replied the girl; 'Missis Raddle raked out the kitchen fire afore she went to bed, and locked up the kittle. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Charcoal in the furnace being well ignited, ore and charcoal resting on the tray are alternately raked into the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Wildeve threw three points; Venn two, and raked in the coins. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The machine worked with hitches, not nearly so smoothly nor so efficiently as it should, but it did work; it gathered the grain in and it left it in good shape to be raked off the platform. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I've raked, and scraped, and borrowed, and all but begged,--and the price of these two was needed to make up the balance, and I had to give them up. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She seemed to have raked up everything. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They will be raking up everything against him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But if not, there is no object in raking up this scandal against a dead man, foully as he has acted. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Which, you see, Pip, said Joe, pausing in his meditative raking of the fire, and looking at me, were a drawback on my learning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This plan was very clumsy, but improvements were made so rapidly that by 1860 the market was filled with various patterns of self-raking reapers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The hay can be gathered by any number of sweep rakes and dumped near the stacker, which will stack on any side and in any shape. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In agriculture, the reaper has been supplemented with threshing machines, seeders, drills, cultivators, horse rakes and plows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The salt settles to the bottom of the pan and large rakes operated either by hand or machinery collect the salt. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This output, together with 75,000 horse rakes, also made, averaged a complete machine for every forty seconds in the year, working ten hours a day. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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