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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..

But :: But (v. t.) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.

Brake :: Brake () imp. of Break.

Shelduck :: Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.

Land :: Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

Mandragorite :: Mandragorite (n.) One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

Winter''s Bark :: Winter's bark () The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577..

Water Crake :: Water crake () The spotted crake (Porzana maruetta). See Illust. of Crake.

Drank :: Drank (n.) Wild oats, or darnel grass. See Drake a plant..

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..

Racle :: Racle (a.) See Rakel.

Sheldfowl :: Sheldfowl (n.) The common sheldrake.

Rakehelly :: Rakehelly (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.

Skeelgoose :: Skeelgoose (n.) The common European sheldrake.

Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..

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..

Green-leek :: Green-leek (n.) An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called also the scarlet-breasted parrot.

Enfilade :: Enfilade (v. t.) To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops..

Keelrake :: Keelrake (v. t.) Same as Keelhaul.

Rakel :: Rakel (a.) Hasty; reckless; rash.

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