Raking
[rek]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rake
(n.) The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
(n.) A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
Editor: Miriam
Examples
- 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.
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