Meaning of 'rake' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
- A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting
hay or grain; a horserake.
- A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically,
or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
- The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction;
as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
- the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any
part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
- A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
- To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to
scrape; to search minutely.
- To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
- To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast
rakes aft.
- To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
- To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
- To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up;
as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
- 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.
- To pass a rake over; to scrape or scratch with a rake for
the purpose of collecting and clearing off something, or for stirring
up the soil; as, to rake a lawn; to rake a flower bed.
- To search through; to scour; to ransack.
- To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and
lightly, as a rake does.
- 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.
Meaning of 'rake' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
Example in sentence:- the roof had a steep pitch
Meaning (2):
- scrape gently
Meaning (3):
- level or smooth with a rake
Meaning (4):
- gather with a rake
Meaning (5):
- move through with or as if with a rake
Example in sentence:- She raked her fingers through her hair
Meaning (6):
- examine hastily
Example in sentence:- She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi
Meaning (7):
- sweep the length of
Example in sentence:- The gunfire raked the coast
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