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Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of; in naval engagements, to cannonade, as a ship, on the stern or head so that the balls range the whole length of the deck..

Rake :: Rake (v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves..

Crakeberry :: Crakeberry (n.) See Crowberry.

Rosella :: Rosella (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow..

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) An extended handle by means of which a number of men can unite in working a pump, as in a fire engine..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake..

String :: String (n.) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it..

Cow :: Cow (n.) A wedge, or brake, to check the motion of a machine or car; a chock..

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

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn..

Brake :: Brake (n.) A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes..

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

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..

Rake :: Rake (v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life..

Crake :: Crake (v. t. & i.) To cry out harshly and loudly, like the bird called crake..

Strain :: Straik (n.) A strake.

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

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..

Drake :: Drake (n.) Wild oats, brome grass, or darnel grass; -- called also drawk, dravick, and drank..

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