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| 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. | |
