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Definition rake

Etymology 1

From Middle English rake, from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“rake”), from Proto-Germanic *rak?, *rekô (“rake”). Cognate with Dutch raak, reek, riek (“rake; pitchfork”), German Low German Raak (“rake; poker”), German Rechen (“rake; grill”), Swedish raka (“an oven-rake”).

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

1. 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. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
3. (rail transport, Britain) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
4. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
5. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
6. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
7. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

1. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris from.
2. To search thoroughly.
3. To spray with gunfire.
4. To claw at; to scratch.
5. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in)
6. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

Etymology 2

From Middle English raken, from Old English racian (“to direct, rule, govern, control; take a course or direction, go forward, move, run; hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *rak?n? (“to choose a direction, run”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Dutch raken (“to hit, touch, reach”).

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

1. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
2. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
3. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

1. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct
3. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.

Etymology 3

Shortening of rakehell, possibly from rake (etymology 2) (“to proceed rapidly”).

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

1. A man habituated to immoral conduct.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

1. (Britain, dialectal, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
2. (Britain, dialectal, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
3. (hunting, intransitive) Of a dog or hawk, to follow the wrong course; to go wide of the game being pursued.

Etymology 4

From Middle English, from Old Norse rák (“trail”), from Proto-Germanic *r?k?, *rak?, *rak?, *rak? (“file of tracks, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?re?- (“to straighten, direct”). Cognate with Icelandic rák (“streak, grazing”), Icelandic raka (“strip, series”), Norwegian røk (“grazing”), Norwegian rak (“wick”), Old English race, racu (“a run, riverbed”).

Noun

rake (plural rakes)

1. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
2. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.

Verb

rake (third-person singular simple present rakes, present participle raking, simple past and past participle raked)

1. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

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