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   Rake , n. [AS. race; akin to OD. rake, D. reek, OHG. rehho, G. rechen, Icel. reka a shovel, and to Goth. rikan to heap up, collect, and perhaps to Gr. ὀρέγειν to stretch out, and E. rack to stretch.  Cf. Reckon.]
   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.
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   A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
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   [Perhaps a different word.] (Mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
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   Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under 1st Gill.
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   Rake, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Raking.] [AS. racian. See 1st Rake.]
   To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up; as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
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    Hence: 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.
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   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.
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   To search through; to scour; to ransack.
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   The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
   Swift.
   
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   To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
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   Like clouds that rake the mountain summits.
   Wordsworth.
   
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   (Mil.) 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.
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   To rake up. (a) To collect together, as the fire (live coals), and cover with ashes. (b) To bring up; to search out and bring to notice again; as, to rake up old scandals.
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   Rake , v. i.
   To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
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   One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.
   Dryden.
   
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   To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
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   Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.
   Sir P. Sidney.
   
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   Rake, n. [Cf. dial. Sw. raka to reach, and E. reach.] The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction; as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.; especially (Naut.), the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
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   Rake, v. i. To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.
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   Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.
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   Rake, n. [OE. rakel rash; cf. Icel. reikall wandering, unsettled, reika to wander.] A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué.
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   An illiterate and frivolous old rake.
   Macaulay.
   
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   Rake, v. i.
   [Icel. reika.  Cf. Rake a debauchee.] To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]
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   [See Rake a debauchee.] To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
   Shenstone.
   
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   To rake out (Falconry), to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk.
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