(n.) 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.
(n.) A toothed machine drawn by a horse, -- used for collecting
hay or grain; a horserake.
(n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically,
or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein.
(v. t.) To collect with a rake; as, to rake hay; -- often with up;
as, he raked up the fallen leaves.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To search through; to scour; to ransack.
(v. t.) To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and
lightly, as a rake does.
(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.
(v. i.) To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to
scrape; to search minutely.
(v. i.) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
(n.) The inclination of anything from a perpendicular direction;
as, the rake of a roof, a staircase, etc.
(n.) the inclination of a mast or funnel, or, in general, of any
part of a vessel not perpendicular to the keel.
(v. i.) To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast
rakes aft.
(n.) A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue.
(v. i.) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
(v. i.) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
