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Webster 1913 Edition

Rake

Rake

(rāk)
,
Noun.
[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
.]
1.
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.
2.
A toothed machine drawn by a horse, – used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
3.
[Perhaps a different word.]
(Mining)
A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; – called also
rake-vein
.
Gill rakes
.
(Anat.)
See under 1st
Gill
.

Rake

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Raked
(rākt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Raking
.]
[AS.
racian
. See 1st
Rake
.]
1.
To collect with a rake;
as, to
rake
hay
; – often with
up
;
as, he
raked
up the fallen leaves
.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
To search through; to scour; to ransack.
The statesman
rakes
the town to find a plot.
Swift.
5.
To scrape or scratch across; to pass over quickly and lightly, as a rake does.
Like clouds that
rake
the mountain summits.
Wordsworth.
6.
(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.
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
.

Rake

(rāk)
,
Verb.
I.
1.
To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely.
One is for
raking
in Chaucer for antiquated words.
Dryden.
2.
To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
Pas could not stay, but over him did
rake
.
Sir P. Sidney.

Rake

,
Noun.
[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.

Rake

,
Verb.
I.
To incline from a perpendicular direction;
as, a mast
rakes
aft
.
Raking course
(Bricklaying)
,
a course of bricks laid diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to strengthen it.

Rake

,
Noun.
[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.
An illiterate and frivolous old
rake
.
Macaulay.

Rake

,
Verb.
I.
1.
[Icel.
reika
. Cf.
Rake
a debauchee.]
To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
[See
Rake
a debauchee.]
To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
Shenstone.
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.
Encyc. Brit.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rake

RAKE

,
Noun.
An instrument consisting of a head-piece in which teeth are inserted, and a long handle; used for collecting hay or other light things which are spread over a large surface, or in gardens for breaking and smoothing the earth.

RAKE

,
Noun.
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a man addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices.

RAKE

,
Noun.
1.
The projection of the upper parts of a ship, at the height of the stem and stern, beyond the extremities of the keel. The distance between a perpendicular line from the extremity of stem or stern to the end of the keel, is the length of the rake; one the fore-rake, the other the rake-aft.
2.
The inclination of a mast from a perpendicular direction.

RAKE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. frico.]
1.
Properly, to scrape; to rub or scratch with something rough; as, to rake the ground.
2.
To gather with a rake; as, to rake hay or barley.
3.
To clear with a rake; to smooth with a rake; as, to rake a bed in a garden; to rake land.
4.
To collect or draw together something scattered; to gather by violence; as, to rake together wealth; to rake together slanderous tales; to rake together the rabble of a town.
5.
To scour; to search with eagerness all corners of a place.
The statesman rakes the town to find a plot.
6.
In the military art, to enfilade; to fire in a direction with the length of any thing; particularly in naval engagement, to rake is to cannonade a ship on the stern or head, so that the
balls range the whole length of the deck. Hence the phrase, to rake a ship fore and aft.
To rake up, applied to fire, is to cover the fire with ashes.

RAKE

, v.i.
1.
To scrape; to scratch into for finding something; to search minutely and meanly; as, to rake into a dunghill.
2.
To search with minute inspection into every part.
One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words.
3.
To pass with violence or rapidity.
Pas could not stay, but over him did rake.
4.
To seek by raking; as, to rake for oysters.
5.
To lead a dissolute, debauched life.
6.
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes aft.

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