rake
nounEtymology
From Middle English rake, rakke (“pass, path, track; type of fencing thrust; pasture land (?)”), and then partly: * probably from Old English racu (“bed of a stream; path; account, narrative; explanation; argument, reasoning; reason”) (compare Old English hrace, hraca, hracu (“gorge”)), from Proto-Germanic *rakō (“path, track; course, direction; an unfolding, unwinding; account, narrative; argument, reasoning”) [and other forms], from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”); and * from Old Norse rák (“strip; stripe; furrow; small mountain ravine”), further etymology uncertain but probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rakō, as above. Cognates The English word is cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, stripe; notch in a rock; vein in stone or wood”), Norwegian råk (“channel (in ice); cow path; trail”), Norwegian Nynorsk råk (“channel (in ice); cow path; trail; furrow; stripe”), Swedish råk (“crack or channel in ice; river valley”); and probably cognate with Old Danish rag (modern Danish rag (“stiff; taut”) (regional)), Old Norse rakr (“straight”), Swedish rak (“straight”).
Definitions
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting…
A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- I've been dealing primarily with rake and spaceship interactions for ease of experimentation (a rake will invariably escape before being eaten by even its most hellish progeny, and a spaceship is easy to redraw on the spot).
- That would mean building rake guns or glider gun arrays to construct moving walls.
- The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.
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To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- She is raking the gravel path to keep it even.
- We raked all the leaves into a pile.
The act of raking.
Something that is raked.
A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
A series, a succession
A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.
- On February 21 Class "O4/1" 2-8-0 No. 63635 passed through Manchester (Victoria) heading in the Rochdale direction with a rake of empty wagons.
Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way
Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to…
Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
To move swiftly
To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
Of a bird of prey
Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
Rate of progress
Rate of progress; pace, speed.
To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- A mast rakes aft.
Senses relating to watercraft.
A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular
A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
In full, angle of rake or rake angle
In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- We have now and then rakes in the habit of Roman senators, and grave politicians in the dress of rakes. The misfortune of the thing is, that people dress themselves in what they have a mind to be, and not what they are fit for.
- For honest men delight will take, / To shew you favour for his sake, / Will flatter you; and Fool and Rake / Your steps pursue: / And of your Father's name will make / A snare for you.
- "He was a big old rake, full of marks and scars, and he had only an ear and a half."
To behave as a rake
To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
- When women hid their necks , and veil'd their faces , Nor romp'd , nor raked , nor stared at public places
A surname.
A village in Rogate parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref…
A village in Rogate parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8027).
A small town in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States, named after a pioneer citizen.
The neighborhood
Derived
cavex rake, clam rake, de-thatching rake, dethatching rake, fire rake, grass rake, hay rake, hayrake, hell-rake, horserake, lawn rake, rakeback, rakeful, rakehoe, rakeless, rakelike, rakemaker, raker, rake receiver, rakestale, rake-stepping, roof rake, snake rake, spring rake, step on a rake, stubble rake, thatcher's rake, thatching rake, thatch rake, thatch-rake, thin as a rake, top rake, muckrake, overrake, rakeable, rake and scrape, rake-and-scrape, rake in, rake it in, rake 'n' scrape · +11 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA