Definition of rake

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Rake (v. t.) To collect or draw together with laborious industry; to gather from a wide space; to scrape together; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town..

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Rakeshame :: Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A sharp bit or snaffle.
Strake :: Strake (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak..
Crake :: Crake (v. t. & i.) To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully.
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..
Parakeet :: Parakeet (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.
Racleness :: Racleness (n.) See Rakelness.
Shelduck :: Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.
Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..
Drake :: Drake (n.) A dragon.
Turnstone :: Turnstone (n.) Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species (Strepsilas interpres). They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and other aquatic animals. Called also brant bird, sand runner, sea quail, sea lark, sparkback, and skirlcrake..
Breakman :: Breakman (n.) See Brakeman.
Rake :: 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..
Crake :: Crake (n.) Any species or rail of the genera Crex and Porzana; -- so called from its singular cry. See Corncrake.
Bracken :: Bracken (n.) A brake or fern.
Barleybrake :: Barleybrake (n.) Alt. of Barleybrea.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient instrument of torture.
Rakestale :: Rakestale (n.) The handle of a rake.
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