Definition of rake

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Rake (n.) An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or for breaking and smoothing the earth..

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Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card..
Raker :: Raker (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.
Canebrake :: Canebrake (n.) A thicket of canes.
Skitty :: Skitty (n.) A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen..
Drake :: Drake (n.) A small piece of artillery.
Parakeet :: Parakeet (n.) Same as Parrakeet.
Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
Rakehell :: Rakehell (n.) A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake..
Racleness :: Racleness (n.) See Rakelness.
Handwheel :: Handwheel (n.) Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted..
Strake :: Strake (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces..
Wellat :: Wellat (n.) The king parrakeet See under King.
Land :: Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
Raked :: Raked (imp. & p. p.) of Rak.
Weaser :: Weaser (n.) The American merganser; -- called also weaser sheldrake.
Rakel :: Rakel (a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.
Brake :: Brake (n.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern..
Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves..
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