1. n. a rake (garden tool), made of various materials; stylized and decorated bamboo rakes are also used as good luck charms for businesses (q, from the sense of gathering good fortune towards the user)
(synonyms, ja, レーキ, tr1=rēki, q1=more general term)
2. n. (historical) a weapon similar in shape to a gardening rake, used to catch and unseat an opponent on horseback
3. n. (by analogy from the sense of a tool used to gather something toward the user) an extremely greedy person
(synonyms, ja, 欲張り, tr1=yokubari)
その他の翻訳と定義
rake
1. 熊手
rake
1. n. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris, or for loosening soil.
2. n. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
Jim has had a rake of trouble with his new car.
3. n. (rail, UK) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
The train was formed of a locomotive and a rake of six coaches.
4. n. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
5. n. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
6. n. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
7. n. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
8. v. 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
9. v. To search thoroughly.
Detectives appeared, roped the curious people out of the grounds, and raked the place for clews. -- Captain John Blaine
10. v. To spray with gunfire.
the enemy machine guns raked the roadway
11. v. To claw at; to scratch.
Her sharp fingernails raked the side of my face.
12. v. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
The casino is just raking in the cash; it's like a license to print money.
13. v. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
14. n. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
15. n. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
16. n. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
17. v. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
18. v. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct
19. v. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
A mast rakes aft.
20. n. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
21. v. (dialect) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
22. v. (dialect) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
23. v. (hunting, intransitive) Of a dog or hawk, to follow the wrong course; to go wide of the game being pursued.
24. n. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
25. n. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.
a sheep-raik = a sheep-walk
26. v. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.
