Definition of rake

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Rake (v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.

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Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A worker at a furnace or fire.
Rakeshame :: Rakeshame (n.) A vile, dissolute wretch..
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista.
Sheldrake :: Sheldrake (n.) Any one of the American mergansers.
Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.
Rakery :: Rakery (n.) Debauchery; lewdness.
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Drake :: Drake (n.) The drake fly.
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Bergander :: Bergander (n.) A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.
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Involucre :: Involucre (n.) A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns..
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Skeelgoose :: Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.
Strake :: Strake (n.) A streak.
Rakel :: Rakel (a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.
Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.
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