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).

Edited by Debra

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

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