rake

Meaning

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 similarly shaped tool used for other purposes.
4. 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. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
3. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
4. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
5. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
6. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
7. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
8. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
9. To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.

Verb

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.

Verb

1. To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
2. Senses relating to watercraft.
3. Senses relating to watercraft.

Verb

To behave as a rake; to lead a hedonistic and immoral life.

Synonyms

libertine

profligate

scratch

harrow

roue

sweep

scrape

slope

brush

pitch

scraper

scapegrace

lecher

graze

bank

🏦

rip

shave

skim

debauchee

slant

fork

rakehell

comb

playboy

search

ascent

whisk

glance over

philanderer

rummage

run down

satyr

scan

scrabble

enfilade

delve

poke

skin and bones

road-scraper

hoe

crease

inclination

dig

blood

🩸

minx

pass over

pick

⛏️

pitchfork

plume

plunge

precipice

preen

prodigal

prong

rabble

raise

raker

rake up

rakish

ransack

rasp

reprobate

reveller

rounder

round up

rub out

saunterer

score out

scoundrel

scrape together

sharpener

shovel

sluggard

sprat

squandering

stir

strafe

strike

stroller

swab

taper

tittup

rake together

towel

vagabond

wanton

whistle

whore

wipe

wipe off

wipe out

wipe up

wolf

🐺

womaniser

womanizer

delve into

dissolute person

ladies’ man

swing out

bamboo rake

lewd person

mussel rake

clam rake

anterior horn

grade of slope

slope gradient

front rake

hook angle

rake angle

falling gradient

inclination pitch

ventral cornu

degree of slope

swinging traverse

raking machine

straw rake

plough harrow

bedhopper

delete

abandoned

batter

branch

broom

🧹

camber

carve

censure

chase

claw

cluster

collect

compile

cue

curry

🍛

currycomb

curry-comb

decline

deviation

dip

dissipated

dissolute

drag

dress

👗

efface

erase

escarp

excise

expunge

fast

gather

gigolo

grade

gradient

groom

grub

idler

incline

incontinent

lech

list

lothario

lounger

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹeɪk/

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”)).