English Explanatory Dictionary

rake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
  2. A similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
  3. A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
  4. A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
  5. A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
verb
  1. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
  2. Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
  3. Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
  4. To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
  5. Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
  6. To search through (thoroughly).
  7. To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
  8. To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
  9. To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
  10. To pick (a lock) with a rake.
noun
  1. The act of raking.
  2. Something that is raked.
  3. A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
  4. A lot, plenty.
noun
  1. A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
  2. A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
  3. A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
  4. Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
verb
  1. Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
verb
  1. To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
  2. Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
noun
  1. Rate of progress; pace, speed.
verb
  1. To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
  2. Senses relating to watercraft.
  3. To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
  4. Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
noun
  1. A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
  2. In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
  3. The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
  4. Senses relating to watercraft.
  5. A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
  6. A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
  7. The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
noun
  1. A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
verb
  1. To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Rogate parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8027).
  3. A small town in Winnebago County, Iowa, United States, named after a pioneer citizen.

Pronunciation

/ɹeɪk/ En-us-rake.ogg

Word forms

rake rakes raking raked no-table-tags glossary rakest rakedst raketh raik Raikes

Etymology

From Middle English rake [and other forms], from Old English raca, racu, ræce (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Germanic *rakō, *rekô (“tool with a row of pointed teeth, rake”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself”). Cognates The English word is cognate with Danish rage (chiefly regional), Middle Dutch rāke, rēke (modern Dutch raak, reek (both regional), riek (“pitchfork, rake”)), Middle Low German rāke, racke (modern German Low German Raak (“rake; poker”)), Old High German rehho, rech (Middle High German reche, modern German Rechen (“rake”)), Old Norse reka (“shovel”) (modern Icelandic reka (“shovel”)), Old Saxon recho, Old Swedish raka (modern Swedish raka (“rake; (long) straight section of a road”)).

Synonyms

horserake comb comb through go over with a fine-tooth comb scour consist slope roué adulterer bed-hopper carpetmonger chamberer debauchee debaucher fornicator gallant lecher lewdster libertine hood rat philanderer rake rantipole rizzler player seducer voluptuary wanton blissom chamber colt gill harlot harlotize minx rig slut trollop wantonize

Derived words

cavex rake clam rake de-thatching rake dethatching rake fire rake grass rake hay rake hayrake hell-rake horserake lawn rake rakeback rakeful rakehoe rakeless rakelike rakemaker raker rake receiver rakestale rake-stepping roof rake snake rake spring rake step on a rake stubble rake thatcher's rake thatching rake thatch rake thatch-rake thin as a rake top rake muckrake overrake rakeable rake and scrape rake-and-scrape rake in rake it in rake 'n' scrape rake-'n'-scrape rake off rake out rake over rake over old coals rake over the coals rake together rake up rerake unrake unraked rakehood rakery rakish raky

Translations

Arabic: يجمع الحشائش Arabic: قذائف مكثفَة Arabic: يسرح الشعر\الحشائش Assamese: লোৰোক Bulgarian: събирам с гребло Catalan: rampinar Chinese Mandarin: 耙 Czech: hrabat Dutch: rakelen Dutch: gritselen Dutch: harken Esperanto: rasti Estonian: rehitsema Finnish: haravoida Finnish: kulkea edestakaisin Finnish: liikuttaa edestakaisin Finnish: tulittaa edestakaisin Finnish: pippuroida French: ratisser French: arroser Galician: anciñar Galician: angazar Georgian: მოფოცხვა German: rechen German: harken Greek: τσουγκρανίζω Hungarian: gereblyéz Hungarian: összegereblyéz Ingrian: haravoija Italian: rastrellare Italian: mitragliare Korean: 갈퀴다 Ladin: restlé Latgalian: kast Latvian: grābt Lithuanian: grėbti Māori: rakaraka Māori: rakuraku Polish: grabić Polish: zgarniać Polish: zgrabić Polish: ostrzeliwać Portuguese: rastelar Romanian: grebla Russian: сгребать Russian: собирать Slovene: grabiti Spanish: rastrillar Swedish: raka Swedish: kratta Swedish: räfsa Swedish: peppra Tày: bóp Ottoman Turkish: طرمیقلامق Ottoman Turkish: طرامق Vietnamese: bừa Yakut: харбаа Zhuang: rauq Czech: hrabanka
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