Definition of rake

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Rake (v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft..

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Rakestale :: Rakestale (n.) The handle of a rake.
Drakestone :: Drakestone (n.) A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes..
Rake :: Rake (n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel..
Rakehelly :: Rakehelly (a.) Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.
Scrat :: Scrat (v. i.) To rake; to search.
Crake :: Crake (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake..
Raked :: Raked (imp. & p. p.) of Rak.
Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum..
Parrakeet :: Parrakeet (n.) Alt. of Parakee.
Brake :: Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn..
Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
Skeldrake :: Skeldrake (n.) Alt. of Skieldrak.
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..
Raker :: Raker (n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
Crowberry :: Crowberry (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry..
Corncrake :: Corncrake (n.) A bird (Crex crex or C. pratensis) which frequents grain fields; the European crake or land rail; -- called also corn bird.
Lapstrake :: Lapstrake (a.) Made with boards whose edges lap one over another; clinker-built; -- said of boats.
Garboard :: Garboard (n.) One of the planks next the keel on the outside, which form a garboard strake..
Mandragora :: Mandragora (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1..
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..
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